gäbär with the general meaning “man” is relatively common in poetic texts only. Outside the poetic corpus, attestations of gäbär are sparse, and in most of them this term is markedly opposed to designations of women and/or children (cf. Dt 22:5, Ex 10:11 and 12:37, Jer 43:6, 44:20). Such a distribution suggests a specialized meaning “adult male” rather than simply “man”.