Grammatical and natural (biological) gender in Greek

Wayne Leman wayne_leman at sil.org
Sat Jun 15 20:45:50 EDT 2002


> By the way, ARHN is masculine according to my dictionary, but ARNION is
> neuter.

Whoops, you're right. My dictionary has the same thing. My eyes must have
been acting up on me again, or did I typo that as my ewes, instead of my
eyes?!  :-)

>  AMNOS is also masculine but there is a feminine AMNAS, AMNAD-
> used in LXX for 2 Samuel 12:3,4. Actually it seems that there is
> something very odd about these Greek words for "lamb".

I spotted that also, but I was a little sheepish to say so,
Wayne
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