Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jerry Shepherd" <jerry.shepherd AT taylor-edu.ca>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Stewart [mailto:jack_stewart_ AT hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 12:14 PM
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Genesis 18:25

Hello -

In Genesis 18:25 there are two instances of the L preposition plus a 2nd

person pronoun.  Question: why do the pronouns differ in gender? Why
isn't 
the 2nd one also Msc.?

Thanks

Jack Stewart

Oxford, UK


Actually the second occurrence is masculine as well; the word occurs in
a pausal situation with the zapeph qaton accent.  For all appearances,
it seems to practically make the qamets and shewa exchange places.  If
you have any questions I can refer to you to discussions of this
phenomenon in standard grammars.

Dr. Jerry E. Shepherd 
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