¹ tn The expression is “when you take [lift up] the sum [head] of the Israelites.”

¹ tn Heb “and he lifted up portions from before his face to them.”

³ tn The idiom “lift up hand or foot” means “take any action” here.

⁶ tn Heb “Perhaps he will lift up my face.” In this context the idiom refers to acceptance.

¹ tn Heb “lift up,” perhaps in the sense of “bear with” (cf. NRSV “forgive”).

¹ tn Heb “you have lifted up the right hand of his adversaries.” The idiom “the right hand is lifted up” refers to victorious military deeds (see Pss 89:13; 118:16).

² sn I will lift up my hands. Lifting up one’s hands toward God was a gesture of prayer (see Ps 28:2; Lam 2:19) or respect (Ps 119:48).

² tn Heb “to you, O Lord, my life I lift up.” To “lift up” one’s “life” to the Lord means to express one’s trust in him through prayer. See Pss 86:4; 143:8.

¹ tn Heb “the sons of Kish, their brothers [i.e., relatives/cousins] lifted them up.” For other uses of נָאָשׂ (naʾas, “lift up”) in the sense of “marry,” see BDB 671 s.v. Qal.3.d.

² tn Grk “lift up your eyes” (an idiom). BDAG 357 s.v. ἐπαίρω 1 has “look up” here.

¹ tn Heb “the eyelids,” but it represents the early beams of the dawn as the cover of night lifts.

¹ tn The word actually means “weighed,” that is, lifted up on the scale and weighed, in order to purchase.

¹ tn Heb “the leader, the lifting up, the musicians.” See also the note on the word “matter” in v. 22.

³ tn Heb “You shall not lift up faces of poor [people] and you shall not honor faces of great.”

² tn Heb “he shall lift up the fatty ashes which the fire shall consume the burnt offering on the altar.”

⁴ tn The word suggests “the ones lifted up” above others, and therefore the rulers or the chiefs of the people.

¹ tn Heb “and he lifted his eyes.” The referent of “he” (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “she lifted up her eyes toward,” an expression that emphasizes her deliberate and careful scrutiny of him.

¹ tn Heb “and Jacob arose and he lifted up his sons and his wives on to the camels.”

² tn Heb “in the time of the breeding of the flock I lifted up my eyes and I saw.”