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 25:42, Hos. 10:12? Comp. such phrases as 1 S. 1:18 וַתֵּלֶךְ לְדַרְכָּהּ  went her way, 1:17 לְכִי לְשָׁלוֹם   go in peace; to smite לְפִי חֶרֶב   with the edge, Is. 1:5 לחלי , 50:11. On ל  with obj. cf. § 73, R. 7.

The prep. עֶד  unto, as far as to, often includes the limit, 1 S. 17:52; esp. the form מִן ··· עַד (וְעַד)  , Gen. 31:24 מִטּוֹב עַד־רָע   good or evil (from g. to e.), 14:23; 19:11, Ex. 22:3, 1 K. 6:24, Is. 1:6. The form לְמִן  is common, Deu. 4:32, Jud. 19:30, 2 S. 7:6, cf. Is. 7:17, Am. 6:14. In later style the compound עַד לְ  is common, 2 Chr. 28:9; 29:28, cf. 1 K. 18:29; Jud. 3:3 in the phrase “unto the entering in of Hamath,” 1 Chr. 13:5, cf. 5:9. The sense up to becomes = even (cf. Ar. ḥtta), Nu. 8:4, 1 S. 2:5, Hag. 2:19, Job 25:5, cf. Ex. 9:7, Deu. 2:5.

(c) Prep. מִן  may be a noun = a part. Its various senses follow from this, e.g. (1) the partitive, Gen. 30:14 מִדּֽוּדָאֵי בְנֵךְ  some of thy son’s mandrakes, 28:11; 45:23, Ex. 4:9; 6:25; 16:27; 17:5, Lev. 5:9, 1 K. 1:6, Job 27:6, Neh. 5:5, Ps. 137:3 (§ 11, R. 1 a). So perhaps such passages as Lev. 4:2, Deu. 15:7 (§ 35, R. 2), 1 S. 14:45, 2 S. 14:11, Ex. 12:4, unless such cases belong to (3) below, e.g. 1 S. 14:45 from (beginning with, starting from) a hair. Cases like Gen. 6:2; 7:22; 9:10; 17:12, where מן  seems to particularise, are explainable in the same way.

(2) The sense from, away from, naturally follows. Hence use of מן  in comparison, Ex. 12:4, 1 S. 15:22, 2 S. 20:6, Hos. 6:6 (§ 33 seq.). Hence also privative sense, away from, without, Gen. 27:39 מִטַּל  away from the dew, Job 11:15 מִמּוּם   without spot, 19:26; 21:9, Is. 22:3, Hos. 9:11, Jer. 10:14; 48:45, Mic. 3:6, Zech. 7:11, Ps. 109:24, Pr. 20:3. So after verbs of delivering, saving, redeeming from, restraining, ceasing from, fearing and being ashamed to do, &c. And in pregnant consns. (§ 101 above); Gen. 27:1, 1 S. 8:7; 15:23, 1 K. 15:13, Is. 7:8, Hos. 4:6; 9:12, Ps. 102:5, cf. 1 S. 25:17 so that there is no speaking to him. (3) The sense from may refer to source, point of starting from, e.g. frequently in the local (and temporal) sense, Gen. 12:1; 13:11; 15:4, Ex. 15:22, 1 S. 17:33; 20:1;