² tn Grk “spoken in the ear,” an idiom. The contemporary expression is “whispered.”

² tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”

¹ tn Heb “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your mind on.”

² tn Heb “or his ear too heavy [i.e., “dull”] to hear.”

³ tn Heb “he arouses for me an ear, to hear like disciples.”

¹ tn Or perhaps, “makes me obedient.” The text reads literally, “has opened for me an ear.”

¹ tn Heb “in my ears, the Lord of armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].”

⁴ tn The idiom is based on attentiveness: “did not incline my ear to.”

² tn Heb “those who rise up against me, evil [foes], my ears hear.”

³ tn Heb “you make firm their heart, you cause your ear to listen.”

¹ tn Heb “May your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.”

¹ tn Heb “so that everyone who hears it, his two ears will quiver.”

² tn Heb “also Abner went to speak into the ears of David in Hebron.”

² tn Heb “and speak into the ears of the elders of that city his words.”

² tn Heb “did not hear your voice and did not turn an ear to you.”

² tn Heb “on the lobe of the ear of Aaron, the right one.”

³ tn Heb “in the ears of Joshua.” The account should be read to Joshua.

⁴ tn Heb “was in the ear” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “had headed.”

¹ tn Heb “Please my lord, let your servant speak a word into the ears of my lord.”

¹ tn Grk “what you hear in the ear,” an idiom meaning “say someth. into someone’s ear, i.e., secretly or in confidence, whisper” (BDAG 739 s.v. οὖς 1).