This article originally appeared in the JP magazine as a sidebar attached to “The Holy Spirit in the Hebrew New Testament” by Ray Pritz. Greek, like English, has three genders—masculine, feminine and neuter—while Hebrew has only masculine and feminine. There does not seem to be any logic as to whether a Hebrew noun is masculine …
Sidebar: The Intricacies of Hebrew Gender
This article originally appeared in the JP magazine as a sidebar attached to “The Holy Spirit in the Hebrew New Testament” by Ray Pritz. Greek, like English, has three genders—masculine, feminine and neuter—while Hebrew has only masculine and feminine. There does not seem to be any logic as to whether a Hebrew noun is masculine …

