Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

> Is it an idiomatic possibility that a K- so used as this one is, prefixed
to a
> number, could function like the English idiom "up to [such and such
number]?
> Could it be emphasizing that as many as 36 died, not as a rough figure,
but as
> lamenting that up to that precise figure the deaths occurred?
>
> Travis Jackson
>
Dear Travis,

Do you know of any other example of this use of K...?

Yigal