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household servants, body of servants (collective)

Abednego (personal name); Babylonian name given to Azariah, one of Daniel's three companions

produce, yield (of the land)

to pass through, transgress (in these contexts)

ford (river crossing place)

Abronah (place name); wilderness encampment of Israel, one station from Ezion-geber

sensuous love, lustful words or desires (plural intensive)

crane or swallow (bird, exact species uncertain)

ring, earring, hoop (ornament worn on ear or body)

Eglath (place name); location in Moab, possibly 'third Eglath' or 'three-year-old heifer'

Eglah (personal name); wife of David, mother of Ithream

to pass on, advance, remove (proceed forward or take away)

still, yet, hitherto (temporal adverb indicating continuance up to present)

delight, pleasure (especially sensual/sexual)

Eden (personal name); Levite who served during Hezekiah's reforms

Adna (personal name); identifies two post-exilic men

Adnah (personal name); identifies a Judahite prince and a Manassite warrior

to be hoed, to hoe (cultivate with a hoe or mattock)

Eder (personal name); Levite in the genealogy of Merari

Adriel (personal name); son-in-law of Saul, married to Merab

Avvim, Avvites (gentlic/ethnic designation); people group in Canaan/Syria

young boys, little children (masculine plural)

Avvim (place and people name); coastal people and a Benjamite city

to act unjustly, to deal wrongfully (Piel intensive)

bird, fowl (Aramaic; collective or individual)

Ephai (personal name; ketiv: Ophai); a Netophathite leader post-fall of Jerusalem

to counsel, take counsel, plan together (rare variant of יעץ, appearing only in imperative forms)

to press down, totter (Hiphil: cause to totter or press heavily; dubious root, possibly textual corruption)

with blindness (phrase: prepositional form of עִוָּרוֹן, denoting affliction with literal or figurative blindness)

Uthai (personal name: a Judahite in 1 Chronicles 9:4 and a returnee in Ezra 8:14)

mighty, powerful (adjective describing military strength or divine power)

the Uzzielites, of the Uzzielites (gentilics: descendants of Uzziel, a Levitical clan)

the black vulture, the osprey (unclean bird of prey, possibly a species of vulture or fish-eating hawk)

with the signet, with his signet (prepositional phrase: using a seal or signet ring)

the Gazite, the Gazathites (gentilics: inhabitants of Gaza, the Philistine city)

grasping, to grasp (infinitive absolute + participle: seizing or wrapping forcibly)

to cover oneself, to be covered (Qal: to envelop oneself, as with garments or metaphorically)

to surround, to encircle (Qal: to close in on, to encompass protectively or hostilely)

Ataroth Addar (place name: a border town between Ephraim and Benjamin)

Atroth Beth Joab (place name: a town in Judah, possibly associated with the clan of Joab)

Ebal, Obal (personal name: a descendant of Seir the Horite, possibly linked to a deity or place name)

in Iye Abarim, in Iyim (prepositional phrase: at the Israelite encampment east of Moab)

Iyim, from Iyim (place name: a town in Judah and a wilderness station, possibly identical with Iye Abarim)

En Shemesh (place name: 'Spring of the Sun,' a border landmark between Judah and Benjamin)

darkness, gloom (noun: deep darkness, often parallel to shadow of death)

agitation, wrath (noun: emotional turmoil, rage, or terror; textually uncertain)

Irad (personal name: a descendant of Cain in the antediluvian genealogy)

Iram (personal name: an Edomite chief listed in the genealogies of Esau)

Ayish, the Bear (constellation name: possibly Ursa Major or a related star group)

spider (noun: arachnid, used metaphorically for fragility or futility)