{"id":766,"date":"2008-11-18T16:04:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/hebrew_question\/"},"modified":"2008-11-18T16:04:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T15:04:41","slug":"hebrew_question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Hebrew question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question I received recently to which I don&#8217;t know the answer. Can you help?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Can you please tell me something about Hebrew.  I want to know if the Hebrew we get in Biblica Hebraica, which I think is based on the masoretic text, used gender specific pronouns.  Are references made to he and she with a different term for each as in English or is only one term used as in Thai?<\/p>\n<p>I particularly need to know if I am correct in thinking that God is referred to with &#8220;He&#8221; &#8220;him&#8221; and &#8220;his&#8221; as the translators of the New  Amer. Std. seem to think.  Of course, in English, they have no choice.  We don&#8217;t have a gender neutral term for a human being.  So I just need to know what the original Hebrew is like.  I hope you know. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Gensis 1:27 God created man in <strong>His<\/strong> own image, in the image of God <strong>He<\/strong> created <strong>him<\/strong>; male and female <strong>He<\/strong> created them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question I received recently to which I don&#8217;t know the answer. Can you help? Can you please tell me something about Hebrew. I want to know if the Hebrew we get in Biblica Hebraica, which I think is based on the masoretic text, used gender specific pronouns. Are references made to he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hebrew","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}