³ tn Grk “will receive few (blows).”

² tn Heb “Do not borrow just a few.”

¹ tc Heb “fear.” A few medieval Hebrew mss read “see.”

² tn Heb “the people were few in its midst.”

² tn Heb “to a few you will lessen his inheritance.”

² tn Heb “to the mouth of the few years.”

¹ tn Grk “says.” This is one of the few times Luke uses the historical present.

² tn Heb “for to destroy [is] in his heart, and to cut off nations, not a few.”

² sn This is a rhetorical question, asserting that very few can cope with depression.

¹ tn Heb “to number our days,” that is, to be aware of how few they really are.

¹ tc A few Hebrew mss, one LXX ms, and the Syriac read “Maaseiah.”

² tc A few medieval Hebrew mss read “Shepho” (see Gen 36:23).

¹ tc Some medieval Hebrew mss and a few LXX mss read “Alvan” (see Gen 36:23).

¹ tn Heb “and [not] may his men be few” (cf. KJV, NASB, NIV).

¹ tn Heb “you will be left men (i.e., few) of number.”

¹ tn Grk “not a few”; this use of negation could be misleading to the modern English reader, however, and so has been translated as “quite a few” (which is the actual meaning of the expression).

⁴ tn Grk “not a few”; this use of negation could be misleading to the modern English reader, however, and so has been translated as “quite a few” (which is the actual meaning of the expression).

² tc A few mss (D W 69 and a few versional witnesses) omit this verse either to harmonize it with Matt 25:28-29 or to keep the king’s speech seamless.

¹ tc A few medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta add “the prophet.” The words are included in a few modern English version (e.g., TEV, CEV, NLT).

¹ tn BDAG 472 s.v. ἱκανός 4.a has “many, quite a few” for ἱκανοί (hikanoi) in this verse.