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  • From: "Bryan Rocine" <brocine AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Gen 15:6 feminine suffix?
  • Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:59:01 -0400


Hi Bill, you wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>What is the signficance of the feminine suffix in Gen 15:6?
Does it help
decide who counted what as faithfulness?

I'm not sure if that is a good question, since I'm asking on
behalf of
someone else.

>>>>>>>>>>>>

Sure it's a good question. When an abraction is referred to
in BH such as here "belief" or "believing" the gender tends
towards the feminine. (See Gesenius section 122p-r). I have
noticed the common use of the feminine demonstrative pronoun
_zo't_ when referring to such abstraction, such as in Psa
118:23 in which _zo't_ and _hi' both refer to the
abstraction *choosing the rejected stone as the
cornerstone*.

Hoping to help,
Bryan


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