Psalms 109:13

109:13 May his descendants ¹  be cut off! ² 

May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! ³ 

Psalms 112:6

112:6 For he will never be upended;

others will always remember one who is just. ⁴ 

Proverbs 10:7

10:7 The memory ⁵  of the righteous is a blessing,

but the reputation ⁶  of the wicked will rot. ⁷ 

Isaiah 38:11

38:11 “I thought,

‘I will no longer see the Lord ⁸  in the land of the living,

I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. ⁹ 

Numbers 1:14

1:14 from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel; ¹⁰ 

[109:13]  ¹ tn Or “offspring.”

[109:13]  ² sn On the expression cut off see Ps 37:28.

[109:13]  ³ tn Heb “in another generation may their name be wiped out.”

[112:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “for an eternal memorial a just [one] will be.”

[10:7]  ⁵ sn “Memory” (זֵכֶר, zekher) and “name” are often paired as synonyms. “Memory” in this sense has to do with reputation, fame. One’s reputation will be good or bad by righteousness or wickedness respectively.

[10:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “name.” The term “name” often functions as a metonymy of association for reputation (BDB 1028 s.v. שֵׁם 2.b).

[10:7]  ⁷ tn The editors of BHS suggest a reading “will be cursed” to make a better parallelism, but the reading of the MT is more striking as a metaphor.

[38:11]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text has יָהּ יָהּ (yah yah, the abbreviated form of יְהוָה [yÿhvah] repeated), but this is probably a corruption of יְהוָה.

[38:11]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text has חָדֶל (khadel), which appears to be derived from a verbal root meaning “to cease, refrain.” But the form has probably suffered an error of transmission; the original form (attested in a few medieval Hebrew mss) was likely חֶלֶד (kheled, “world”).

[1:14]  ¹⁰ tc There is a textual difficulty with this verb. The Greek form uses r and not d, giving the name Ra‘oul. There is even some variation in the Hebrew traditions, but BHS (following the Leningrad codex of a.d. 1008) has preferred the name Deuel.