diff --git a/man2/lseek.2 b/man2/lseek.2
index d39a8b4f0..32331aba5 100644
--- a/man2/lseek.2
+++ b/man2/lseek.2
@@ -210,7 +210,9 @@ is
 .B SEEK_DATA
 or
 .BR SEEK_HOLE ,
-and the file offset is beyond the end of the file.
+and
+.I offset
+is beyond the end of the file.
 .TP
 .B EOVERFLOW
 .\" HP-UX 11 says EINVAL for this case (but POSIX.1 says EOVERFLOW)