Variation in Grammatical Gender in Biblical Hebrew A Study on the Variable Gender Agreements of {final kef}{resh}{segol}{dalet}{segol}, ‘Way’
The first part of this article provides a review of the attestations of the noun {final kef}{resh}{segol}{dalet}{segol} (‘way’) in the Hebrew Bible, offering a new classification according to grammatical gender. In the second part of the article, an explanation of the variation in the grammatical ge...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2004
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2004, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-45 |
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| Summary: | The first part of this article provides a review of the attestations of the noun {final kef}{resh}{segol}{dalet}{segol} (‘way’) in the Hebrew Bible, offering a new classification according to grammatical gender. In the second part of the article, an explanation of the variation in the grammatical gender of {final kef}{resh}{segol}{dalet}{segol} is proposed. The author suggests that neither chronological, poetic, semantic or syntactic factors can explain the variation in gender in a satisfactory manner; although such factors may be of some importance in specific cases, the underlying decisive clue can be found rather in morphological and phonological features of words syntactically dependent on {final kef}{resh}{segol}{dalet}{segol}. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-8556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Semitic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jss/49.1.21 |