Endnote 3 – David’s Threat to Nabal

The translation “male” appears in the New American Standard Bible, the New Revised Standard Version, the New International Version and the New King James Version. The American Standard Version, unaccountably, has “man-child.” But P. Kyle McCarter gets it right in his 1 Samuel, Anchor Bible Series 8 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980), p. 390.