¹ tn Heb “to search [for].”

¹ tn Heb “to search.”

¹ tn Heb “sought” or “searched for.”

² tn Aram “and they searched and found.”

² tn Heb “I will search him out.”

² tn Or “had instigated a search” (Herod would have ordered the search rather than conducting it himself).

¹ tn Heb “and concerning his greatness there is no searching.”

¹ tn Heb “search out, examine,” which here means (by metonymy) “devise.”

² tn Heb “or his offspring searching for food.” The expression “search for food” also appears in Lam 1:11, where Jerusalem’s refugees are forced to search for food and to trade their valuable possessions for something to eat.

³ tn The Hebrew has “the search of their fathers,” but the word is probably intended to mean what that observation or search yielded (so “search” is a metonymy of cause).

³ tn Heb “a searched-out search,” which is understood as referring here to a thoroughly planned plot to destroy the psalmist.

² tn The word means “search; investigation,” but it here means what is discovered in the search (so a metonymy of cause for the effect).

⁵ tn Heb “I searched for him” or “I sought him” (see study note above).

¹ tn The word means “search,” but can be used for a wide range of matters, including spying.

¹ tn Heb “and they were searched and there were found in them.”

² tn Heb “the priest shall not search to the reddish yellow hair.”

³ tn Heb “they inquired and searched.” The synonyms are joined to emphasize the care with which they conducted their inquiry.

² tn Heb “How Esau will be searched!”; cf. NAB “How they search Esau.” The Hebrew verb חָפַשׂ (khafas, “to search out”) is used metonymically here for plundering the hidden valuables of a conquered people (e.g., 1 Kgs 20:6).

⁴ sn The verb חָפַשׂ (khafas) means “to dig; to search” (BDB 344 s.v.; cf. NCV “hunt for it”). The Arabic cognate means “to dig for water.” It is used literally of Joseph searching his brothers’ sacks (Gen 44:12) and figuratively for searching the soul (Ps 64:7). This is a more emphatic word than the one used in the first colon and again emphasizes that acquiring wisdom will be demanding.

⁵ tn Heb “embrace garbage.” One may also translate “rummage through” (cf. NCV “pick through trash piles”; TEV “pawing through refuse”; NLT “search the garbage pits”).