Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

   Of course 'ish is used in various idiomatic ways. To take just one example 
in Judg. 17:6b : "people did what they wished"  -- a precise but not literal 
translation -- 'ish clearly stands for the population as a whole. But when 
the scribe composed this beautiful verse ( to which my translation really 
does no justice) women simply were not in his mind as  an active part of 
society who has a right to chose.This is tragically the case to this day in 
more than one part of the world.
  Thus while the meaning of 'ish is much broader than original one, it cannot 
be claimed to reprersernt both sexes.
 
   Uri

Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:
 .......

...."Anyway, the "exceptions" I quoted are by no means 
unique, it is regular usage for 'ish, especially repeated as 'ish 'ish, 
to mean "each" in a gender neutral way."




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On 28/02/2005 17:51, C. Stirling Bartholomew wrote:

>Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:
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>  
>
>>the referents may include women as in Job
>>42:11
>>    
>>
>
>R. Gordis (Book ofJob.1978) disagrees. He renders )y$ in 42:11 "each man."
>Do you really think Job's sisters were in the position socially to be giving
>him gifts, transferring wealth that was not theirs to give?
>
>  
>
Clay, I am not sure, but this is what BDB says and what the text seemed 
to say to me at first sight. As for the social situation of Job's 
sisters, from a land and society of which we know almost nothing, how 
can we know what they might have been able to give?


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