Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

isaac,

i was really trying to encapsulate my objection into a nutshell, but now 
there is no escape from
a more detailed account. actually, my remark about gender generalizes also to 
person.

in isa 22:4, if you changed the pronoun from ANI to HU/HI etc the minni will 
change to mimkha/mimekh etc, making a difference. thus, separating MINNI 
("from me") to MIN+ANI, as you did, at least makes grammatical sense, because 
person/gender etc are indeed involved.

now, in job 31:7 if you change the noun DEREKH to, say, HAR or YAM 
(masculine), or AZ (not even a noun) the minni will not change. thus, in this 
case, separating MINNI to MIN+HI, as you also did (furthermore, specifically 
arguing that HI represents the noun DEREKH) makes absolutely no grammatical 
sense, because in the phoneme MINNI (="from") person and gender are not yet 
specified. only the word which follows may specify them (or may choose not 
to):

                              MINNI DEREKH (f), MINNI YAM(m), MINNI HAR(m), 
MINNI AZ(-).

(the reason i ignored person in my first response is that in this 
construction the only possible person value can be 3rd.)

nir cohen

On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:15:03 -0500, Isaac Fried wrote
> I am afraid you are looking for "gender" where there is none. In Hebrew a 
> boy says (actually identify or tag himself) 
> as ANIY אני and so does a girl.
> 
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
> 
> On Jan 6, 2012, at 2:22 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:
> i fully agree that Isa 22:4 minniy expresses gender ("from me") whereas job 
> 31:7 does not express gender ("from"). so, the HI=road part must be wrong. 
> 
> nir cohen 

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