Judges 15:8

15:8 He struck them down and defeated them. ¹  Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Judges 3:16

3:16 Ehud made himself a sword – it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. ²  He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

Judges 3:21

3:21 Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s ³  belly.

[15:8]  ¹ tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.

[3:16]  ² tn The Hebrew term גֹּמֶד (gomed) denotes a unit of linear measure, perhaps a cubit (the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger – approximately 18 inches [45 cm]). Some suggest it is equivalent to the short cubit (the distance between the elbow and the knuckles of the clenched fist – approximately 13 inches [33 cm]) or to the span (the distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little finger in a spread hand – approximately 9 inches [23 cm]). See BDB 167 s.v.; HALOT 196 s.v.; B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 142.

[3:21]  ³ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Eglon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.