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Genesis 2:19

And Yahweh elohim is forming from out of the Red-one the whole of a living one of the Field, and את-all flying-one of the Dual-Heavens, and he is coming toward the Red-one, to see what he is summoning to-himself.92 And everyone who he is summoning to-himself, Red-one, breath, he has lived himself, his name.93


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The Hebrew לוֹ lo carries the sense of belonging or possessing. It is different than the accusative otow, him in Genesis 1:27 in that it is passive or reflexive. It means his, to himself, or for himself. It also acts as an accusative for verbs. This is the sense elsewhere such as in Genesis 4:19, ויקח־לו למך, “Lamech is taking hold to-himself two women” and Genesis 38:25, “I am with child by the man to whom these ones are to-himself [ לוֹ].”