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(Copy of) Inclusive vs. exclusive pronouns in the Old and New Testaments

MHMary Harris · Mar 5, 2020, 3:39 PM · Last modified: Sep 28, 2026, 11:38 AM
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For the TIPs tool we have been working on making a listing of (almost) all occurrences of first person plural pronouns in the Old Testament and looked at how two languages that use clusivity (Jarai and Adamawa Fulfulde) deal with each occurrence. I have just added all those stories (note that there are still some missing entries from Psalms and there are a couple of other minor glitches that will be fixed) and I hope that you will find those helpful for your translation/consulting work. We would of course very much appreciate if you let us know if you encounter passages for which a different form of clusivity has been used in a different language (you can use the Comment field below each story).

You can find most of them following this link: https://tips.translation.bible/?s=inclusive+vs.+exclusive+pronoun+jarai or via the individual verses.

Jost

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