[Avodah] [Mesorah] Fwd: Chad Gadya

Ira L. Jacobson laser at ieee.org
Fri Apr 12 03:14:04 PDT 2019


At 05:37 12-04-19  -0400, Micha Berger stated the following:

>On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:48:22AM +0300, Ira L. Jacobson via Avodah wrote:
>: In Hebrew, the singular of dibrot, as in aseret hadibrot, is dibber.
>
>Although in biblical Hebrew, it's aseres hadevarim, not "-os".

Of course; that makes its gender even more 
obvious.  However, that is not relevant to the 
original discussion, relating to the word dibber, 
as in "even though Dibra/Dibrot and Mida/Midot 
are female."  [One is; one is not.]


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