⁵ tn Heb “your mouth.” This is a synecdoche of part (the mouth) for whole (the person).

⁴ tn The wall is a synecdoche of a part standing for the whole city.

⁴ tn Heb “until the whole scroll was consumed upon the fire that was in the fire pot.”

² tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NAB, NIV “mankind”; TEV “the whole human race.”

³ tn Heb “their eye does not.” Here “eye” is a metonymy for the whole person.

¹ tn Heb “over all the place, Mount Zion.” Cf. NLT “Jerusalem”; CEV “the whole city.”

¹ sn The act of plowing is put for the whole process of planting a crop.

³ tn Heb “years.” The term “years” functions as a synecdoche of part (= years) for the whole (= lifespan).

³ tn Heb “my flesh,” which stands for his whole person and being.

³ tn Heb “command.” The singular here refers to the law as a whole.

¹ sn Strahan comments, “The whole tragedy of the book is packed into these extraordinary words.”

¹ tn Heb “all his house” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “his whole family.”

¹ tn Heb “Benjamin turned after him and, look, the whole city went up toward the sky.”

¹ tn Actually, “law” here means a whole set of laws, the basic rulings on this topic.

¹ tc This whole clause is not in the Greek text; it is likely missing due to homoioteleuton.

³ tn Heb “his eye.” The term “eye” is a synecdoche of part (i.e., the eye) for the whole (i.e., the whole person); see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 647.

¹ tn Heb “I turned aside to allow my heart despair.” The term לִבִּי (libbi, “my heart”) is a synecdoche of part (i.e., heart) for the whole (i.e., whole person); see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 648.

² sn The word “feet” is here a synecdoche, a part for the whole. Being the instruments of movement, they represent the swift and eager actions of the whole person to do some harm.

⁴ tn Grk “the whole Sanhedrin” (the Sanhedrin was the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).

³ sn This judgment involves everyone: all who live on the face of the whole earth. No one will escape this evaluation.