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  • From: "David Stabnow" <dstabno AT lifeway.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Deut. 22:8 *yiphol nophel*
  • Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:14:07 -0600



Ponder wrote:

> ... How does BH customarily say "anyone" or "someone"? It seems
reasonable that *ish*, *nephesh* or any number of other terms could
be used as indefinites in this manner, but I find they usually are
not employed in this fashion, although the idiomatic "a man and his
neighbor" is used to mean "everyone."



DKS: "Anyone" or "everyone" can be expressed with _KL_ "all" followed by a
participle (Gen 4:14, 15, 21; Exod 12:15), or followed by *ish* (Gen
45:1; Exod 25:2), or followed by *nephesh* (Exod 1:5).



Dave





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