¹ tn Heb “the frame.”

¹ tn Heb “the frame.”

¹ tn Heb “under the one frame” again.

¹ tn Heb “two hands to the one frame.”

¹ tn The Hebrew text is framed as a rhetorical question: “will you not take notice?”

² tn The imperfect verbal form here describes a continuing attitude in a past time frame.

¹ tn The imperfect verbal form here depicts the action as continuing in a past time frame.

² tn Heb “and your tongue binds together [i.e., “frames”] deceit.”

² tn Heb “also over its opening were carvings and their frames [were] squared, not round.”

³ tn Or “rosettes,” shield-like frames for the stones. The Hebrew word means “to plait, checker.”

² tn A ‫מִטָּה‬ (mittah) is typically bed with a frame (which can be ornate and covered with blankets and pillows). Here, like a stretcher, it is a portable frame for carrying a body, technically a bier.

¹ sn Heb “hands,” the reference is probably to projections that served as stays or supports. They may have been tenons, or pegs, projecting from the bottom of the frames to hold the frames in their sockets (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 286).

¹ tn On the phrase אַמּוֹת הַסִּפִּים (ʾammot hassippim, “pivots of the frames”) see HALOT 763 s.v. סַף.

² tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive continues the time frame of the perfect verb that came before it.

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate that Jesus’ response is a result of their framing of the question.

² sn The parallelism suggests that the afflicted is one afflicted within his spirit, for the proverb is promoting a healthy frame of mind.

³ tn Heb “and [in] my kidneys I was pierced.” The imperfect verbal form here describes a continuing condition in a past time frame.

³ tn Heb “and all the entrances and the doorposts [had] four frames, and in front of opening to opening three times” (the precise meaning of the description is uncertain).

¹ tn Heb “And Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died.” The vav (ו) functions in a consecutive sense (“then”), but the time-frame is not explicitly stated.

¹ tn The clause is repeated to show the distributive sense; it literally says, “and two bases under the one frame for its two projections.”