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Genesis 2:19

And Yahweh elohim is forming from the Red-one the whole of a living one of the Field, and אֶת-all flying-one of the Dual-Heavens, and he has come toward the Red-one, to see what he is summoning to-himself.92 And everyone straightly/whom he is summoning to-himself, Red-one, breath of living-one, 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].”