[Mesorah] us'ara / us'arahh

[Ira L. Jacobson]

At 12:33 25-04-12 +0300, D&E-H Bannett stated the following:
>Re: «I would say that "sei'ar" is masculine, even in its qamatz-heih form >>
>
>Mah t'rivun 'imadi. I take the word of the 
>experts.  You disagree with Even Shoshan who 
>lists it as feminine and brings sources to prove it.

That's funny.  My Even Shoshan lists it as 
masculine and gives examples, such as se`ar 
[tzere, qamatz] shahor  Lev. 13:37).

Just to make sure we are talking about the same 
word, se`ar refers to hair as the collection of 
all the hairs, while sa`ara (patah, hataf-patah, 
qamatz) refers to an individual hair.  (And gives 
examples, such as Ps 40:13).  This is the feminine word.




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