² tn Heb “with very great strength.” The Hebrew term חַיִל (khayil, “strength”) may refer here to the size of her retinue (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) or to the great wealth she brought with her.

¹ tn Heb “stumblers have put on strength.” Because of the contrast between the prior and current condition, the participle has been translated with past tense. The Hebrew metaphor is a picture of getting dressed with (“putting on”) strength like clothing.

¹ sn The eagle was often used in the ancient Near East as a symbol of strength and swiftness.

⁴ tn Heb “they fled with no strength” (וַיֵּלְכוּ בְלֹא־כֹחַ, vayyel^ekhu b^eloʾ khoakh).

² sn The “right hand” is a symbol of activity and strength; the Lord directs Cyrus’ activities and assures his success.

² tn Heb “your strength in battle.” The verb in the first clause provides the verbal idea for the second clause.

³ tn Heb “the hope of strength,” meaning hope based on power, is a genitive of cause or source.

¹ tn Heb “the strength of his deeds he proclaimed to his people, to give to them an inheritance of nations.”

¹ tn Heb “[you] mighty ones of strength, doers of his word, by listening to the voice of his word.”

² sn Strength is compared here to a belt that one wears for support. The Lord’s power undergirds his rule.

² tn Heb “make them roam around by your strength and bring them down, O our shield, the Lord.”

² tn Heb “in your strength.” The translation interprets the pronominal suffix as subjective, rather than merely descriptive (or attributive).

¹ sn The arm symbolizes the strength of the wicked, which they use to oppress and exploit the weak.

² tn Heb “his strength and his anger.” The expression is a hendiadys (one concept expressed through two terms).

³ tn Heb “and there was no one belonging to the house of Ahaziah to retain strength for kingship.”

² tn Heb “there is not except you to help between many with regard to [the one] without strength.”

¹ tn Heb “and David was dancing with all his strength before the Lord, and David was girded with a linen ephod.”

¹ tn Heb “But may those who love him be like the going forth of the sun in its strength.”

¹ tn Heb “But you must cross over armed for battle before your brothers, all [you] mighty men of strength.”

⁵ tn Heb “strength.” The term וַחֲיָלִים (vakhayalim, conjunction + plural noun from חַיִל, khayil, “strength; efficiency”) is an example of a plural of intensification (GKC 397-98 §124.e). The point is that it is a waste of a great deal of strength and energy. If a person is not smart, he will have to use a lot of energy and waste his efficiency.