¹ tn Heb “and they cast lots [for] service, just as like small, like great, teacher with student.”

² tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”

² tn Heb “and she did not tell him a thing, small or large.”

² tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

² tn Heb “the small,” but referring to social status, not physical stature.

¹ sn Later Judaism ruled that “too small” meant fewer than ten (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 88).

¹ tn The question is rhetorical. It was not a small thing to them—it was a big thing.

¹ sn A small animal generally understood to be Hyrax syriacus; KJV, ASV, NIV84 “coney”; NKJV “rock hyrax.”

¹ tn Heb “and a small boy of old age,” meaning that he was born when his father was elderly.

³ tn The meaning and connection of the line is not readily clear. It could be taken in one of two ways: (1) a person can steal even a small piece of bread if hungry, and so the court should show some compassion, or it should show no partiality even in such a pathetic case; (2) a person could be bribed for a very small price (a small piece of bread being the figure representing this). This second view harmonizes best with the law.

⁴ tn The term πόλις (polis) can refer to a small town, which is what Nain was. It was about six miles southeast of Nazareth.

² sn A speck (also twice in v. 42) refers to a small piece of wood, chaff, or straw (L&N 3.66); KJV, ASV “mote”; NAB “splinter.”

² sn The term translated speck (KJV, ASV “mote”; NAB “splinter”) refers to a small piece of wood, chaff, or straw; see L&N 3.66.

² tn Heb “being small.” Some omit לִהְיוֹת (lih^eyot, “being”) because it fits awkwardly and appears again in the next line.

³ sn Heb “I will make you small among the nations” (so NAB, NASB, NIV); cf. NRSV “least among the nations,” NCV “the smallest of nations.”

² tn Heb “and the splendor of Moab will be disgraced with all the great multitude, and a small little remnant will not be strong.”

¹ tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the Lord gave into their hand an army [that was] very large.”

¹ tn Heb “and this was small in your eyes, O God, so you spoke concerning the house of your servant for a distance.”

¹ tn Heb “a small upper room of a wall.” According to HALOT 832 s.v. עֲלִיָּה, this refers to “a fully walled upper room.”

² tn Heb “and Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father, to go to Egypt, and Hadad was a small boy.”