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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'

Zehnder, Markus

In: Journal of Semitic Studies, 2004, vol. 49, no. 1, p. 21-45

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    Titre
    • Variation in Grammatical Gender in Biblical Hebrew A Study on the Variable Gender Agreements of {final kef}{resh}{segol}{dalet}{segol}, ‘Way'
    Auteur
    • Zehnder, Markus. University of Basel
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Journal of Semitic Studies, 2004, vol. 49, no. 1, p. 21-45. Oxford University Press
    Autre version électronique
    Classification
    • Histoire
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:298887
    Summary
    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}