¹ tn Heb “and he returned his hand to his mouth.”

⁵ tn Heb “according to all that goes out of his mouth.”

¹ tn Heb “To the mouth of the many years.”

² tn Heb “to the mouth of the few years.”

¹ tn Heb “mouth” or “opening” (פִּי, pi; in construct).

⁴ tn Heb “he will be to you for a mouth.”

¹ tn Grk “speak mouth to mouth,” an idiom for which the contemporary English equivalent is “speak face-to-face.”

⁴ tn Grk “speak mouth to mouth,” an idiom for which the English equivalent is “speak face-to-face.”

¹ tn Heb “True teaching was in his mouth”; cf. NASB, NRSV “True instruction (doctrine NAB) was in his mouth.”

¹ tn Heb “and they devoured Israel with all the mouth”; NIV “with open mouth”; TLB “With bared fangs.”

² tn Heb “makes wise his mouth,” with “mouth” being a metonymy of cause for what is said: “speech.”

¹ tn Heb “mouth” (so KJV, NAB). The term פֶּה (peh, “mouth”) functions as a metonymy of cause for speech.

² tn Heb “mouth.” The term פֶּה (peh, “mouth”) functions as a metonymy of cause for counsel, as the parallelism suggests.

¹ tn Heb “with his mouth.” The term פֶּה (peh, “mouth”) functions as a metonymy of cause for speech.

¹ tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”

² tn Heb “you opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me according to [what] went out from your mouth.”

² tn Heb “they open against me their mouth[s].” To “open the mouth against” is a Hebrew idiom associated with eating and swallowing (see Ezek 2:8; Lam 2:16).

¹ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God.” To include “the mouth” would make for odd English style. The mouth stands by metonymy for the Lord’s command, which in turn represents the Lord himself.

⁶ tn Or “boasted with your mouth.” The Hebrew text includes the phrase “with your mouth,” which is redundant in English and has been left untranslated.

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