¹ tn Heb “With him is an arm of flesh.”

¹ tn Heb “look, your bone and your flesh [are] we.”

¹ tn Heb “look we are your bone and your flesh.”

¹ tn Heb “except for his flesh, the one near to him.”

² tn Heb “and he shall bathe all his flesh in water.”

³ tn Heb “like appearance of disease of skin of flesh.”

¹ tn Heb “and the priest shall see the living flesh.”

¹ tn Heb “naked flesh” (so NAB, NRSV); KJV “nakedness.”

² tn Heb “who make flesh their arm.” The “arm” is the symbol of strength, and the flesh is the symbol of mortal man in relation to the omnipotent God. The translation “mere flesh and blood” reflects this.

² tn Grk “the removal of the dirt of the flesh,” where flesh refers to the physical make-up of the body with no moral connotations.

³ tn Grk “in the removal of the body of flesh.” The genitive τῆς σαρκός (tēs sarkos) has been translated as an attributive genitive, “fleshly body.”

¹ tn Heb “fat of flesh”; KJV, ASV “fatter in flesh”; NASB, NRSV “fatter” (although this is no longer a sign of health in Western culture).

² tn Heb “yes, my flesh dwells securely.” The psalmist’s “flesh” stands by metonymy for his body and, by extension, his physical life.

¹ tn Here “flesh” is the sign of humanity. The expression “eyes of flesh” means essentially “human eyes,” i.e., the outlook and vision of humans.

¹ tn Heb “the life of the flesh.” Here “flesh” stands for “every living thing,” that is, all creatures (cf. NIV, NRSV, NLT “every creature”; CEV “every living creature.”

² tn Heb “blood shall be her discharge in her flesh.” The term “flesh” here refers euphemistically to the female sexual area (cf. the note on v. 2 above).

³ tn Heb “and rawness [i.e., something living] of living flesh is in the swelling”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “quick raw flesh.”

¹ sn Here all flesh is a metaphor for humanity—human beings as both frail and temporary.

² tn Grk “as many as have not seen my face in the flesh.”

¹ tn Grk “though I have reason for confidence even in the flesh.”