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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 'iysh and zakar
  • Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:09:01 +0000

On 28/02/2005 11:09, Yigal Levin wrote:

Hi Dora,

I think you've got the meanings reversed. "Ish" means "man" - an adult
male - resumablly a male who is past puberty. It never means "man and
woman". "Zakhar" is a male of any age. So what is forbidden, is for a "man"
to lie with any male (child or adult).


But 'ish by no means always refers to an adult male, although doubtless it does in this context in Leviticus. It is commonly used in a much weaker sense "each", where the referents may include women as in Job 42:11, 1 Chronicles 16:3, and inanimate objects as in 1 Kings 7:30,36. And similarly in an indefinite sense, Psalm 1:1 is hardly restricted in application to adult males.

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