Noun Gentilic

Висновок

A gentilic noun is a noun that describes the ethnic identity of a person or group of people.

Визначення

Biblical Hebrew expresses national, tribal, or ancestral identity using nouns that (usually) immediately follow the noun they describe. For this reason, some scholars prefer to classify gentilic nouns as gentilic adjectives, because they appear in the same position as attributive adjectives. Either classification is grammatically correct.

Приклади

Приклад: GEN 16:1

וְלָ֛הּ שִׁפְחָ֥ה מִצְרִ֖ית

And-to-her slave-girl Egyptian

but she had a female servant, an Egyptian,

Приклад: LEV 24:10

וַיֵּצֵא֙ בֶּן־אִשָּׁ֣ה יִשְׂרְאֵלִ֔ית וְהוּא֙ בֶּן־אִ֣ישׁ מִצְרִ֔י

And-he-went-out son-of_woman Israelite and-he son-of_man Egyptian

Now it happened that the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went