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# a fresh jawbone
This means that the donkey had died very recently and its bones had not yet begun to decay. A jawbone is the bone in which the lower rows of teeth are set.
# a thousand men
"1,000 men" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
# the jawbone of a donkey
"a donkey's jawbone"
# heaps upon heaps
This phrase describes how many people Samson killed. There were enough bodies to make large piles of bodies. AT: "I have made heaps of dead bodies" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])