Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il>]

Jim, 

While I understand the question in English, I'm not at all sure that the 
distinction would have made any sense to a speaker of biblical Hebrew. What 
difference between "her Canaanite father" and "her father, the Canaanite"?


Yigal Levin

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Subject: [b-hebrew] Appositional Phrase vs. Adjectival Phrase


Genesis 38: 2 contains the phrase BT )Y$ KN(NY.
If this is an appositional phrase, KN(NY would be a noun:  “daughter of a 
man, a Canaanite”.
But if this is an adjectival phrase, KN(NY would be an adjective:  “daughter 
of a Canaanitish man”.
At Genesis 38: 2, is KN(NY a noun or an adjective, or is it unclear?  What 
rules of Hebrew grammar apply to determine whether KN(NY is a noun or an 
adjective in this type of situation?
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois
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