Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:07 PM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:

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> You wrote:  “[G]oats are feminine. Check out עזים. Gen 15.9.  In this case 
> יעל is a female ya`el.”
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My point is that 'goats' have a masculine looking form and a masculine
looking plural, yet they are "feminine".
So there really isn't any problem in applying ya`el to a girl. the ya`el is
a goat. A majestic goat to be sure.
As for the masculinity of ya`el, is/was there any concord with the other
occurrences in the Bible to show that ya`el was always 'masculine-only'?
Other 'cross-forms' exist. For example "qohelet" appears to be the 'convener
of an assembly" and was masculine, yet the form with" -et" is distinctively
'feminine'.
And we have Yona, a man's name formed from a feminine noun.


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