From: "Jerry Shepherd" <jerry.shepherd AT taylor-edu.ca>
To: "Jack Stewart" <jack_stewart_ AT hotmail.com>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Genesis 18:25
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:36:01 -0600
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From: Jack Stewart [mailto:jack_stewart_ AT hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 12:14 PM
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Genesis 18:25
Hello -
In Genesis 18:25 there are two instances of the L preposition plus a 2nd
person pronoun. Question: why do the pronouns differ in gender? Why
isn't
the 2nd one also Msc.?
Thanks
Jack Stewart
Oxford, UK
Actually the second occurrence is masculine as well; the word occurs in
a pausal situation with the zapeph qaton accent. For all appearances,
it seems to practically make the qamets and shewa exchange places. If
you have any questions I can refer to you to discussions of this
phenomenon in standard grammars.
Dr. Jerry E. Shepherd
Associate Professor of Old Testament
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