Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>]

>>   1. John's dog
>
>>   2. The dog of the house
>
>
>In the first one, it would be "the dog of John," where "dog" is in Hebrew
>the nomen regens and John is the nomen rectum.
>
>In the second it is the same. 'Dog" is the nomen regens (construct state)
>and "house" is the nomen rectum (genitive).


Thanks to Harold for this post, and thanks to all the other people who wrote
to me privately.

Beside "nomen regens", I was also given

1) "head" (as in "head of the genitive phrase");

2) "head noun", and

2) governed noun.


Ian