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  • From: Trevor Peterson <06PETERSON AT cua.edu>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Song of Solomon 1:4
  • Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:50:20 -0400


>===== Original Message From "Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie> =====
>At 01:45 17/05/02, Steve Fontenot wrote:
>
>>OT Parsing Guide by Beall, Banks, Smith (Moody Press) on "rejoice" has
>>"1cp." I understand "m" to be masculine and "f" to be feminine, but what
>>is "c"?
>
>c -= common
>So 1 cp = "we" or "us"

Just to clarify for those who may not know, "c" for "common" is used when the
form in question does not mark gender. In this case, it happens that Hebrew
and English both use a common form for the first person.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics





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