³ tn Or “departed.”

³ tn Grk “he departed from them.”

⁵ tn Or “to depart from them.”

⁴ tn Heb “prey does not depart.”

² tn Heb “they departed from him.”

³ tn Grk “he departed out of their hand.”

¹ tn Heb “turn aside”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “depart.”

⁵ tn Heb “your wound will not depart from you.”

⁸ tn Grk “returned,” but the effect is that he departed from the Gerasene region.

¹ tn Heb “and Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and lived in Nineveh.”

¹ tn The LXX has, “for now I will depart to the earth.”

¹ tn Heb “and Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and lived in Nineveh.”

² tn Grk “that he should depart.” The ἵνα (hina) clause in Koine Greek frequently encroached on the simple infinitive (for the sake of greater clarity).

¹ tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.”

¹ tn The Hiphil form יַלִּיזוּ (yallizu) follows the Aramaic with gemination. The verb means “to turn aside; to depart” (intransitive Hiphil or inner causative).

² tn The text has הָלַךְ (halakh, “to leave”). But in view of Job 14:20, “perish” or “depart” would be a better meaning here.

¹ tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.”

¹ tn Heb “they arose and went down to Egypt.” The first verb has an adverbial function and emphasizes that they departed right away.

² tn Heb “and he said, ‘Indeed I will go down to my son mourning to Sheol.’” Sheol was viewed as the place where departed spirits went after death.

³ tn Heb “the dew departing early” (BDB 1014 s.v. שָׁכַם); cf. NRSV “the dew that goes away early.” The Hiphil participle מַשְׁכִּים (mashkim) means “to depart early” (Gen 19:27; Josh 8:14; Judg 19:9). The idiom means “early morning” (1 Sam 17:16).