Genesis 2:19
And Yahweh elohim is forming from the Red-one the whole of a living one of the Field, and אֶת-all flying-one of the Dual-Heavens, and he has come toward the Red-one, to see what he is summoning to-himself.92 And everyone straightly/whom he is summoning to-himself, Red-one, breath of living-one, himself, his name.93
Footnote:
| 93 | Inconsistencies seem to exist between the masculine and feminine in this passage but the emphatic himself is connected to Adam. There are feminine nouns, life of the field and living breath, and yet the masculine pronoun himself + his name (shem-ow שְׁמֽוֹ). A vowel point was added to the pronoun הוּא in many places in the Law by the Masoretes to signify a feminine “context”. Gesenius wrote, “In the Pentateuch הוּא also takes in the feminine…no other Semitic language is without the quite indispensable distinction of gender in the separate pronoun of the 3rd person.” In Genesis 20:5, 38:25, and Numbers 5:13-14 both the masculine and feminine pronouns הִוא and הִיא, are found next to each other. See Gesenius Hebrew Grammar 1909, page 107. |