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:github_url: https://git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_uhg/src/branch/master/content/noun_gentilic.rst
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.. _noun_gentilic:
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Noun Gentilic
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Summary
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A gentilic noun is a noun that describes the ethnic identity of a person or group of people.
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Biblical Hebrew expresses national, tribal, or ancestral identity using nouns that (usually) immediately follow the noun they
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describe. For this reason, some scholars prefer to classify gentilic nouns as :ref:`gentilic adjectives<adjective_gentilic>`,
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because they appear in the same position as :ref:`attributive adjectives<adjective-attributive>`.
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Either classification is grammatically correct.
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Examples
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.. csv-table:: Example: GEN 16:1
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וְלָ֛הּ שִׁפְחָ֥ה מִצְרִ֖ית
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And-to-her slave-girl **Egyptian**
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"but she had a female servant, **an Egyptian,**"
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.. csv-table:: Example: LEV 24:10
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"וַיֵּצֵא֙ בֶּן־אִשָּׁ֣ה **יִשְׂרְאֵלִ֔ית** וְהוּא֙ בֶּן־אִ֣ישׁ
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מִצְרִ֔י"
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"And-he-went-out son-of\_woman **Israelite** and-he son-of\_man
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**Egyptian**"
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"Now it happened that the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was
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an Egyptian, went"
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