¹ tn Grk “and raise up seed,” an idiom for fathering children (L&N 23.59).

² tn Or “The darnels.” Here “poisonous weeds” contrasts with “the good seed” mentioned previously in the verse.

¹ tn Or “sow” (so KJV, ASV). The imagery is taken from the sowing of seed by hand.

⁵ tn Heb “and from the seed of royalty and from the nobles.”

² sn Both of these seeds are too small to use the ordinary threshing techniques.

¹ tn Heb “the holy seed,” referring to the Israelites as God’s holy people.

² tn Heb “your seed after you who comes out from your insides.”

⁵ tn Heb “it will not be forgotten from the mouth of his seed.”

² tn Heb “seed of a homer of barley in 50 shekels of silver.”

¹ tn Heb “a conversion value shall be to the mouth of its seed.”

⁴ tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.

⁵ tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”

² tn Heb “his seed” (so KJV, ASV); likewise in vv. 3-4.

¹ tn Heb “and who a lying down of seed goes out from him.”

¹ tn Heb “took of the seed of the land.” For the vine imagery, “seedling” is a better translation, though in its subsequent interpretation the “seed” refers to Zedekiah through its common application to offspring.

¹ tn Heb “And a man when a lying of seed goes out from him”; KJV, ASV “any man’s seed of copulation”; NIV, NRSV, TEV, NLT “an emission of semen.”

¹ tn Grk “seed.” See the note on the first occurrence of the word “descendant” in 3:16.

⁴ tn Grk “the seed.” See the note on the first occurrence of the word “descendant” in 3:16.

¹ tn Grk “and what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare seed.”

³ sn Cumin (alternately spelled cummin) was an aromatic herb native to the Mediterranean region. Its seeds were used for seasoning.