¹ tn Heb “wounds between your hands.” Cf. NIV “wounds on your body”; KJV makes this more specific: “wounds in thine hands.”

³ tn Some take the referent of “flesh” to be more specific here; cf. NEB (“bowels”), NAB (“brains”), NIV (“entrails”).

⁴ sn These military weapons are examples of the metonymy of adjunct (the specific weapons named) for subject (warfare).

⁶ sn No specific posture for offering prayers is prescribed in the OT. Kneeling, as here, and standing were both practiced.

¹ sn There is a great deal of uncertainty with regard to the specific nature of these items of clothing.

¹ tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

² tn The form is the perfect tense with the vav consecutive; it is equal to a specific future within this context.

¹ tn Or “for,” indicating a more specific reason why he will praise the Lord’s name (cf. v. 6).

⁴ tn More specifically, the noun גְּדוּד (g^edud) refers to a raiding party or to a contingent of troops.

¹ tn Heb “one people.” Note the subtle absence at this point of a specific mention of the Jewish people by name.

² tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

¹ tn Heb “a man, a prophet.” Hebrew idiom sometimes puts a generic term before a more specific designation.

² tn Heb “[as the] lyings of a woman.” The specific reference here is to homosexual intercourse between males.

¹ tn The preposition ל (lamed) is here specification, meaning “with respect to” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 49, §273).

³ tn Traditionally, “affliction.” BDAG 457 s.v. 1 has “difficult circumstances” for this specific context, but since this is somewhat lengthy, “adversity” was preferred instead.

¹ tn Since Paul appears to expect specific delegates here and they were most likely men, the Greek word ἀδελφοί (adelphoi) here has not been translated as “brothers and sisters.”

¹ sn In context the unmarried woman would probably refer specifically to a widow, who was no longer married, as opposed to the virgin, who had never been married.

¹ sn The temporal indicator After this is not specific, so it is uncertain how long after the incidents at Cana this occurred.

² sn This is one of the few uses of the specific term salvation in Luke (1:69, 71, 77), though the concept runs throughout the Gospel.

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a specific example of how Jesus spoke with authority (v. 32).