<div dir="ltr">Well, let's start with Rashi (15:4):<div><br></div><div><span class="gmail-co_RashiTitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sbl_hebrew,"arial hebrew",arial;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:right">אביון: </span><span class="gmail-co_RashiText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sbl_hebrew,"arial hebrew",arial;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:right">דל מעני, ולשון אביון שהוא תאב לכל דבר:</span><br></div><div><span class="gmail-co_RashiText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sbl_hebrew,"arial hebrew",arial;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:right"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-co_RashiText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sbl_hebrew,"arial hebrew",arial;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:right"><span class="gmail-co_RashiTitle" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:arial;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:left">needy: </span><span class="gmail-co_RashiText" style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:left">Heb. אֶבְיוֹן, [denoting someone who is] poorer than an ע ָנִי. The term אֶבְיוֹן means“to yearn for” (תָּאֵב) , i.e., one who yearns for everything [because he has nothing]. — [Vayikra Rabbah 34:6, see B.M. 111b]</span><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">RD</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Sholom Simon via Mesorah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I noticed -- perhaps it was two weeks ago -- that oni and ev'yon were used in the same pasuk.<br>
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Can anybody tell me what the difference is?  (Or is there a difference?)<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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-- Sholom<br>
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