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  • From: "Chris and Nel" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
  • To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.Ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] "...she shall be called woman" masculine??
  • Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:27:56 -0000

Genesis 2:23 - "...she shall be called woman". YiQaReA (niphal), I had expected the feminine here. It seems that there is a subliminal message in this declaration by Adam, in that whereas he began the statement with "ZOT" (this, feminine) he now refers to the woman with the masculine, signifying perhaps the reference to the fact that she(he?) was from HIS flesh and with that he shows that he recognizes what has just taken place. Am I making a fool of myself here?

Chris
Ireland.




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