⁴ tn Heb “weigh out silver.”

² tn Heb “and Abraham weighed out.”

¹ tn Grk “weighed down with sleep” (an idiom).

¹ tn Or “weighs” (NIV); NLT “picks up.”

² tn Heb “weighing out in my hand.”

⁴ tn Heb “or weighed by a third part [of a measure].”

² tn Heb “weighs” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV) meaning “tests” or “evaluates.”

¹ tn The words “all weighed” are added for clarity in English.

¹ tn The word actually means “weighed,” that is, lifted up on the scale and weighed, in order to purchase.

² sn A shekel weighed about 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce) although weights varied locally, so these bracelets weighed about 4 ounces (115 grams).

¹ tn Here BDAG 988 s.v. ταλαντιαῖος states, “weighing a talent…χάλαζα μεγάλη ὡς ταλαντιαία a severe hailstorm with hailstones weighing a talent (the talent=125 librae, or Roman pounds of c. 343 gr. or 12 ounces each) (weighing about a 100 pounds NRSV) Rv 16:21.” This means each hailstone would weigh just under 100 pounds or 40 kilograms.

¹ tn Heb “I weighed out the money [more literally, “silver”] for him, seventeen shekels of silver.”

⁴ tn The word “weighs” does not appear in Hebrew, but is added in the translation for smoothness.

² tn Possibly “100 silver vessels worth [?] talents” or “silver vessels weighing 100 talents.”

³ sn 300 bronze shekels would have weighed about 7.5 pounds (3.4 kg).

¹ sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams).

¹ sn A beka weighed about 5-6 grams (0.2 ounce).

² tn Heb “bows it [= his heart] down.” Anxiety weighs heavily on the heart, causing depression. The spirit is brought low.

² tn Heb “weighs” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “examines”; NCV, TEV “judges.” Weighing on scales is an act of examining and verifying weight for market purposes (2 Kgs 12:11) but can be used metaphorically for evaluating other things (e.g. the Lord weighs actions in (1 Sam 2:3).

² tn Heb “he weighed and studied.” The verbs וְאִזֵּן וְחִקֵּר (v^eʾizzen vekhiqqer, “he weighed and he explored”) form a hendiadys (a figurative expression in which two separate terms used in combination to convey a single idea): “he studiously weighed” or “carefully evaluated.” The verb וְאִזֵּן (conjunction + Piel perfect third person masculine singular from II אָזַן (ʾazan) “to weigh; to balance”) is related to the noun מֹאזֵן (moʾzen) “balances; scales” used for weighing money or commercial items (e.g., Jer 32:10; Ezek 5:1). This is the only use of the verb in the OT. In this context, it means “to weigh” = “to test; to prove” (BDB 24 s.v. מאזן) or “to balance” (HALOT 27 II אָזַן). Cohen suggests, “He made an examination of the large number of proverbial sayings which had been composed, testing their truth and worth, to select those which he considered deserving of circulation” (A. Cohen, The Five Megilloth [SoBB], 189).