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consume, devour, finish off, destroy completely

be hoarded, stored up, treasured, accumulated

flaky, scale-like, thin layers (like scales)

Hasrah (personal name, grandfather of Shallum)

and (that which is) lacking, deficiency, what is missing

clean, innocent, pure (morally)

and they covered, did secretly, concealed their actions

for Huppah (personal name, priest of the 13th course)

covering over, sheltering, protecting (hovering protectively)

bend down, stiffen, extend stiffly (like a lowered tail)

and to the moles (or: to dig, for digging; text uncertain)

the Hepherite (gentilic of clan from Hepher)

and Hapharaim (town in Issachar)

a shrewd device, cunning plot, scheme

she was freed, she had been set free (manumitted)

freedom, wide garments (meaning very uncertain)

freedom, liberty, manumission (from slavery)

and Hazor-hadattah (place name: 'new Hazor')

a settled abode, haunt, lair (or possibly: grass, reeds—text uncertain)

and his bosom, the fold of his garment (for carrying grain)

those dividing (spoil), or: archers (meaning debated)

court (of temple or palace), courtyard, enclosure

Hazar-addar (place name on southern border of Canaan)

and Hazar-gaddah (place in southern Judah)

in villages, unwalled settlements, rural hamlets

and Hazar-susah (place name: 'horse enclosure' in Simeon)

Chatsar-Susim, a town in the territory of Simeon (literally 'village of horses')

Chuqoqah, a border town in Naphtali's territory (with directional suffix 'toward')

Chuqoq, a Levitical city in Naphtali (likely a textual variant of Helqat)

their excrement (crude term in the context of siege conditions)

was laid waste, destroyed (Aramaic Hophal form describing Jerusalem's past ruin)

in the drought/heat of (summer), metaphorically describing fever or affliction

and they came trembling/quaking (out of their fortresses in defeat)

the cricket/locust (a clean insect species permitted for food)

Harhaiah, father of a wall-builder in Nehemiah's restoration

with strings of beads/ornamental chains (neck adornment)

Harumaph, father of a wall-builder in Nehemiah's Jerusalem

and moat/trench (defensive earthwork around rebuilt Jerusalem)

Charuts, father of King Amon's mother Meshullemeth

Charchas, grandfather of Shallum (husband of the prophetess Huldah)

and with burning heat/fever (a covenant curse of intense inflammation)

white bread/cake (fine quality bread made from refined flour)

scorching/sultry (describing an oppressive east wind)

roasts/starts (uncertain: either cook game or set in motion for hunting)

was singed (describing hair unaffected by fire in Nebuchadnezzar's furnace)

the lattice (window lattice through which the beloved peers)

mutilated/disfigured (in face: nose, lip, or ear)

Chorem, a fortified city in Naphtali's territory

and Hermons (plural referring to Mount Hermon's multiple peaks)

and Charnefer, a descendant of Asher (possibly also a place name)