Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

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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