Title: Hebrew Grammar Quest / 2. Lessons 4-11 / Lesson 11 / Lesson 11 B. Grammar
Tags: Grammar hebrew::ch_11

Prompt: How are ordinal numbers above 10 normally written in the text of the Hebrew Bible?
Answer: ‘Eleventh’ and higher use cardinal numbers, so you must decide based on context if the number is ordinal or cardinal.
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HGQ Book Section: 11.3

Prompt: What is strange about the grammatical gender of cardinal numbers 3-10 that are written in the Hebrew text?
Answer: • The digits 'three' through 'ten' look like they have the opposite gender of the noun that they count.
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HGQ Book Section: 11.4

Prompt: What is strange about the grammatical number of cardinal numbers 3-10 that are written in the Hebrew text?
Answer: • The digits ‘three’ through ‘ten’ are singular.
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HGQ Book Section: 11.4

Prompt: How are the decades (i.e., 20, 30, ... 90) written as cardinal numbers in the Hebrew text?
Answer: • They are written as masculine plurals of the units. 30 is the plural of 3, 90 is the plural of 9 and so on.
• Exception: 'Twenty' is the plural of 'ten'.
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HGQ Book Section: 11.5

Q: Consider the word:
עָוֹן
[What is at least one reason the middle letter MUST be the consonant Vav with a Holem vowel ("vo") and not the vowel Holem-Vav ("o")?]
A: - Because the previous consonant has the vowel Qamets.  A Holem-Vav will never be preceded by another vowel.
- Except for certain vowel letters and diphthongs, (and there is no such thing as a Qamats+Holem-Vav vowel letter or diphthong), Hebrew words never have two vowels in a row.
- Except for וּ to begin a word, Hebrew syllables never begin with a vowel.
Back Extra: Mark GOOD if you got at least one correct point
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HGQ Book Section: N/A

Q: The Bible [In what format do numbers appear in the Bible?] numbers.
Rabbinical notes [In which format to numbers appear in Rabbinical notes and footnotes?] numbers.
A: always spells out; use symbols for
Back Extra: In the Bible, the English equivalent would be nine hundred sixty-nine, not 969.
In Rabbinical notes, for example א represents our number "1", ל represents "30", and so forth.
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HGQ Book Section: 11.1

Q: What type of numbers end in hiriq-Yod or hiriq-Yod-tav mean?  [...]
שְׁלִישִׁי and שְׁלִישִׁית both mean [...]
A: Ordinal numbers (M and F); "third"
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HGQ Book Section: 11.3

Q: What does the plural עֶשְׂרִים ('tens') mean?
[...]
A: 20
Back Extra: 'two' is already dual, so we can't use the plural for 20, so we use the plural of 1 instead
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HGQ Book Section: 11.5

Q: What does the plural שְׁלֹשִׁים 'threes' mean?
[...]
A: 30
Back Extra: The plural of digits 3 through 9 means the decades 30 through 90
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HGQ Book Section: 11.5