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Eliora Bat-Tziyon

Shalom!

RE: בני b’nai as “children” or “sons” “my son” (term of endearment)

in Hebrew grammar, the masculine plural form CAN be gender inclusive when it refers to a group of individuals. It might be just males, or it can include BOTH males and females. When there is only one male in the group, it would still be a masculine plural usage. When there is only one male and one female in the group, it would be a masculine plural. But when translated into English, we can only tell by context whether it’s all males, or being gender inclusive.

Eliora Bat-Tziyon

… בני ben-i the literal translation is “son of mine” or in English “my son”.
so all the applications are correct, children, sons, my son

susan

just in case you had not caught it yet – 6 and 7 are in reverse order – 7 covers Ch 2 v. 11 to 18 and 6 cover Ch 2 18 to end

Skip Moen, Ph.D.

Thanks. I will fix this ASAP

Teresa

I am not sure this was ever fixed. It appears they are still reversed. 🙂

Skip Moen, Ph.D.

I will look into this when I get home tomorrow