So far this is the most systematic and logical teaching of the Noun that I could find over youtube. Thank you so much. Most of the similar teachings mix up things badly, getting verbs involved , jumping from one thing to another, then coming back on it and overloading the beginner's memory and confusing him. This teaching is very well structured and easy to understand.👍
@@SolomonsCave I'm learning Hebrew this year, and was struggling with how to know whether a noun was masculine or feminine. I had watched another video where they provided some helpful tips but I found that it was too narrow and didn't help with all cases. Your video helped me to understand all the different ways to know whether something is feminine and it helped me a lot. Thanks!
The "-ah" ending is merely a strong indication it is feminine, not a proof, so keep that in mind. Nouns ending in "-eh" and "-oh" aren't very common, and of the top of my head I don't remember if they have a strong gender bias one way or the other. - One exception is that some masculine nouns in the construct state (related to one way of showing possession or relationship) can end in "-eh" (either tsere-he or segol-he). So maybe assuming masculine at first is the best way to go. I suggest you either memorize them one at a time, look them up in a dictionary, or, if you're more advanced, look at the words that are grammatically linked to it (adjectives or verbs) that often have a more explicit gendered form.
@@SolomonsCave, Todah! In retrospect, the Name of Elohim: Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey, some pronounce it: Yahw-eh; Yahu-ah; or Ya’Oh. I was rebutted, my understanding, by an individual that proclaimed “Oh,” is the only masculine vowel. I never gave it much thought before then. Now, I see there is no definitive leg I can stand on! Shalom
There's no known reason as to why nouns are categorized as masculine or feminine? Do you know of any documentation I can look at to verify what you're saying there? I'm asking because I'm doing research on the word wisdom (chokmah) and trying to understand why chokmah is always referred to as a "her" or "she" in all our English translations. Thank you.
Here's what I know: very little. What I do know is that gendered nouns (including neuter nouns in some languages) are common in many languages and most likely go back to conventions from before the languages were written or standardized. Hence, any linguistic theory about why some non-obvious words are masculine/feminine/neuter will be just that: theories. As for English and "wisdom" being feminine, I can only say that it is also a feminine word in Dutch (wijsheid), German (Weisheit), French (sagesse), Spanish (sabiduría), and Greek (σοφία), so it appears to be common in Germanic, Latin, and Hellenic languages.
I dont know how much will it help you but a language has also a sounds. In hebrew when we argue about the gender of a word we solve it by counting the word in singular. for example: Chokmah AHAT - One chokmah and that because numbers are also divided to masculine and feminine. We solve it by the sound we get I'm learning English and I use this method sometimes
The word אתה can be a verb (not common), or a pronoun. As a pronoun, it is the masculine singular "you" and indeed going against the intuitive idea that an "-ah" ending is often feminine.
i dont know if you cover this in a future video, but ive found that some of the symbols in my hebrew OT dont make much sense. for example the 8th word of the second chapter of genesis "appears" to have a patach under the last letter which appears to be a chet. but as well the 6th word of the same chapter has a large dash or bar. as if you took the dalet and cut off the bottom of it, it just looks like a fat dash and i dont really know if it means anything.
Hey Phyankord, glad to see you making progress! It seems you are describing accents, and yes I'll be discussing the most important ones in future videos (I've done 1 batch so far). I have some trouble finding the reference, but what you describe regarding the "large dash" is probably a maqqef (or maqqeph). What you need to know about the maqqef is that it indicates a close grammatical connection between the two words it connects. For example "bene-yisrael" = sons of - Israel = Israelites. Some other accents are either important or interesting and I'll be discussing them in due course. However, several others have unclear or unknown meanings and don't seem to be important to us if all we want to do is read, translate, or understand the meaning of the text. Hope that helps :)
It's funny, you still use the Color Gender Stereotype. Sky Blue for male and Pink for female. Well, in today's society. Color Gender Stereotype is already vanishing. ✌️💪
The LORD never changes nor has variableness or shadow of turning. It's irrelevant if society does. It's Biblical Hebrew not changing Hebrew to fit the whim of the day.
