Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Paul Zellmer" <pzellmer AT sc.rr.com>]

Tony,

 

Why do you consider the feminine suffix=object to be curious?  In the translation given, the suffix is what is translated as "it".  Would you not expect an agreement between that pronoun and the noun to which it refers?

 

Paul Zellmer

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Prete [mailto:tonyprete AT earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 12:37 PM
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Re: Who is the second "he" in Genesis 15:6?

At 11:26 PM 10/13/2001 -0400, Bill Ross wrote:

Who is the second "he" in Genesis 15:6?

And of course, why?

Genesis 15:6  And he believed in the LORD; and **he** counted it to him
for righteousness.

I'm interested too, since I looked it up and the afformative suffix looks to be feminine. The only other feminine word in this brief sentence seems to be the one for "righteousness"--curious.



Peace,
Tony

Anthony Prete
Haddonfield, NJ USA
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