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masculine gender
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masculine gender

The gender of nouns and pronouns referring to male persons or animals: in English grammar, gender distinctions are usually the same as sexual ones. In other languages ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ refer only to noun classifications, not to sex.



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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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