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grammatical gender

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Noun1.grammatical gender - a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
gender
grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
feminine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
masculine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
neuter - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)


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The salient fact is that Hebrew inflects all nouns and verbs according to masculine or feminine grammatical gender, and in this formula, the Hebrew words for "blessed," "you," "Lord," "God," and "king" and all attendant verbs are words whose grammatical gender is masculine.
Who's Blessing whom?: Transcendence, agency, and gender in Jewish ... by Dubin, Lois C. / Cross Currents
4/2 The grammatical gender of God, pagan deities, and angels according to the original texts must not be changed insofar as this is possible in the receptor language.
He/she: in the Bible: the problem of gender by Somerville, Stephen / Catholic Insight
4/2 The grammatical gender of God, pagan deities, and angels according to the original texts must not be changed insofar as this is possible in the receptor language.
Bible and he/she by Somerville, Stephen / Catholic Insight
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