² tn Heb “a tongue of deceit.” The genitive שָׁקֶר (shaqer, “deceit”) functions as an attributive genitive. The noun לָשׁוֹן (lashon, “tongue”) functions as a synecdoche of part (= tongue) for the whole (= person): “lying person.”

¹ tn Heb “their tongues.” However, this is probably not a natural idiom in contemporary English, and the tongue may stand as a part for the whole anyway.

² sn The words “mouth” (“opened her mouth”) and “tongue” (“on her tongue”) here are also metonymies of cause, referring to her speaking.

² tn Heb “a tongue of healing.” A healing tongue refers to speech that is therapeutic or soothing. It is a source of vitality.

² tn Heb “the tongue” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV). The term לָשׁוֹן (lashon, “tongue”) functions as a metonymy of cause for what is said.

² tn Heb “split their tongue,” which apparently means “confuse their speech,” or, more paraphrastically, “frustrate the plans they devise with their tongues.”

⁶ tn Heb “my tongue [is] a stylus of a skillful scribe.” Words flow from the psalmist’s tongue just as they do from a scribe’s stylus.

² tn The Greek term is γλώσσαις (glōssais), the same word used for the tongues of fire.

² tn Heb “They have readied [or strung] their tongue as their bow for lies.”

¹ tn Heb “and every tongue that rises up for judgment with you will prove to be guilty.”

¹ tn Heb “for their tongue and their deeds [are] to the Lord.”

¹ sn “Mouth” and “tongue” are metonymies of cause, signifying what one says (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV).

¹ tn The imperfect tense here denotes possibility: One who holds his tongue [may be considered] discerning.

¹ tn Heb “then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with a shout.”

² tn Heb “[and] the tongue of your dogs from [the] enemies [may eat] its portion.”

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

³ tn Heb “I will watch my ways, from sinning with my tongue.”

³ tn Heb “you conceal them in a shelter from the strife of tongues.”

² tn Or “palate”; the Hebrew term refers to the tongue or to the mouth in general.

¹ tn Or “And divided tongues as of fire.” The precise meaning of διαμερίζομαι (diamerizomai) in Acts 2:3 is difficult to determine. The meaning could be “tongues as of fire dividing up one to each person,” but it is also possible that the individual tongues of fire were divided (“And divided tongues as of fire appeared”). The translation adopted in the text (“tongues spreading out like a fire”) attempts to be somewhat ambiguous.