International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Man-Child

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Man-Child


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man´chı̄ld (American Standard Revised Version; “man child,” the English Revised Version; not in the King James Version; בּקיר משׁתּין, mashtı̄n beḳı̄r): The expression is used with the meaning of “male,” but is found only in the description of the extermination of a whole family, where it is employed to express every male descendant of any age. It occurs in , ; ; ; ; .