⁵ tn The expression is “with strength of hand,” making “hand” the genitive of specification. In translation “strength” becomes the modifier because “hand” specifies where the strength was. But of course the whole expression is anthropomorphic for the power of God.

² tn Or “power,” or “might.” The construction can also be translated as an attributed genitive: “from his glorious strength” (cf. TEV “glorious might”; CEV “glorious strength”; NLT “glorious power”).

¹ tn Heb “and he gave to captivity his strength.” The expression “his strength” refers metonymically to the ark of the covenant, which was housed in the tabernacle at Shiloh.

³ sn Gives me strength. As the following context makes clear, this refers to physical and emotional strength for battle (see especially v. 39).

² tn Heb “and in your hand [is] strength and might, and [it is] in your hand to magnify and to give strength to all.”

⁴ tn Heb “For not by strength a person prevails.” Since the Lord’s strength is apparent in the context, the translation adds “one’s own” for clarity.

⁴ tn Grk “according to the exercise of the might of his strength.”

¹ tn Grk “hand,” here a metaphor for God’s strength or power or authority.

⁴ tn Grk “I do not have strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg.”

¹ tn Heb “with strength”; cf. KJV, NRSV “mightily,” NAB, NCV “loudly,” NIV “urgently.”

¹ tn Heb “hand,” here a metaphor for the strength or power of the flames.

¹ tn Heb “‘Yes, in the Lord,’ one says about me, ‘is deliverance and strength.’”

² tn Heb “strength” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “fury”; NASB “fierceness”; NIV “violence.”

¹ tn Heb “short of hand”; KJV, ASV “of small power”; NASB “short of strength.”

⁴ tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”

² tn Heb “in quietness and in trust is your strength” (NASB and NRSV both similar).

² tn Heb “and the rocky cliff of your strength you do not remember.”

² tn The expression בַּעוֹז (baʿoz) employs a beth essentiae, meaning he “is strong,” not “in strength.”

¹ tn Heb “eat their fill of” or “become sated from” your strength.

¹ tn Heb “the beginning of all their strength,” that is, reproductive power (see Ps 78:51).