Interrogative particle usage

[Jason Hare]

I'm new to this forum. Is it possible to tag someone in my response?

No, unfortunately. It is not similar to social media.

[kwrandolph]

Thanks Karl for your answer. I'm still not convinced though that היש can't be used with definite nouns. See my example above. An even clearer example can be found in Samuel, היש בזה הרואה. Extending this, we should be able to say, היש הרואה בשדה.

In 1 Samuel 9:11 היש is connected to בזה, not to הראה.

At any rate, this seems like a basic expression. I would assume there must be some examples of such a construction in the Bible, without having to resort to conjectures. Maybe there's a more indirect way of phrasing such a question?

After you raised the question, I decided that I should look up all the examples of היש in Tanakh. An electronic search turned up only 19 examples, some were followed by a name but not one of which was followed by a noun with a definite article prefix.

Karl W. Randolph.

[ayalyaniv]

In 1 Samuel 9:11 היש is connected to בזה, not to הראה.

Karl W. Randolph.

I don't care about the word order. The question was if יש can be used to check for existence in a specific location. So would היש בשדה הפרה work?