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Journal of Semitic Studies 2004 49(1):21-45; doi:10.1093/jss/49.1.21
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Variation in Grammatical Gender in Biblical Hebrew A Study on the Variable Gender Agreements of {final kef}{resh}{segol}{dalet}{segol}, ‘Way’+

Markus Zehnder

University of Basel

The first part of this article provides a review of the attestations of the noun {final kef}{resh}{segol}{dalet}{segol} (‘way’) in the Hebrew Bible, offering a new classification according to grammatical gender. In the second part of the article, an explanation of the variation in the grammatical gender of {final kef}{resh}{segol}{dalet}{segol} is proposed. The author suggests that neither chronological, poetic, semantic or syntactic factors can explain the variation in gender in a satisfactory manner; although such factors may be of some importance in specific cases, the underlying decisive clue can be found rather in morphological and phonological features of words syntactically dependent on {final kef}{resh}{segol}{dalet}{segol}.

+ This article is dedicated to Professor Ernst Jenni, whose work on the language of the Hebrew Bible has deeply influenced my own research. I am grateful to Dr John and Gloria Ben-Daniel (Jerusalem) and Professor Hans-Peter Mathys (Basel) for helpful comments and suggestions on a draft of the article.


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