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  • From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: "about" Joshua 7:4-5
  • Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:31:23 +0200

> 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






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