Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Trevor Peterson <06PETERSON AT cua.edu>]

>===== Original Message From "Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie> =====
>At 01:45 17/05/02, Steve Fontenot wrote:
>
>>OT Parsing Guide by Beall, Banks, Smith (Moody Press) on "rejoice" has
>>"1cp." I understand "m" to be masculine and "f" to be feminine, but what
>>is "c"?
>
>c -= common
>So 1 cp = "we" or "us"

Just to clarify for those who may not know, "c" for "common" is used when the 
form in question does not mark gender. In this case, it happens that Hebrew 
and English both use a common form for the first person.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics