6:8 David was angry because the Lord attacked 3 Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, 4 which remains its name to this very day.
1 tn Heb “and they grabbed each one the head of his neighbor with his sword in the side of his neighbor and they fell together.”
2 tn The meaning of the name “Helkath Hazzurim” (so NIV; KJV, NASB, NRSV similar) is not clear. BHK relates the name to the Hebrew term for “side,” and this is reflected in NAB “the Field of the Sides”; the Greek OT revocalizes the Hebrew to mean something like “Field of Adversaries.” Cf. also TEV, NLT “Field of Swords”; CEV “Field of Daggers.”
3 tn Heb “because the
4 sn The name Perez Uzzah means in Hebrew “the outburst [against] Uzzah.”