This BDB list is exactly the sort of lexicography to which I object. This is
not giving the meaning of the word, rather it is a list of possible
translations. In other words, entries like this show that BDB is a
translator’s dictionary, not a dictionary for a student who wants to learn to
think in Biblical Hebrew.
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...BDB also lists examples of B- meaning "with" in the senses of accompaniment and of concomitant conditions, and clearly distinguishes these from instrumentality. If you disagree with BDB on these listed cases, your disagreement is exegetical and not lexicographical.
For example, does the B-prefix mean “with”? I can’t think of one time except
in the very narrow context where “with” is used as a sign of instrumentality.
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