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Originally Posted by Singrkel
Can anyone explain to me this whole masculine and feminine nouns and verbs in the Greek and Hebrew? Are there counterparts for each word? How do you know which one is the right one?
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Greek has masculine, feminine and neuter nouns.
Generally context determines what should be used. Im not sure there are always m,F and N versions of each noun or not. For example church in greek is feminine....Now there is no reason in the context to determine the church is a she...unless in greek language all non personal bodies are "shes" then there might just be one gender word for church...for example we often refer to a ship as a she.
However I do know that nouns and pronouns most usually coincide...if the noun is masculine the pronoun must be masculine...if the noun is neuter the pronoun must be neuter.
So every time spirit is mentioned the noun is the neuter gender pnuema and so the pronoun grammatically MUST be a neuter pronoun "it".....and this IS the case in places like Romans where the Trinitarians have "himself" the pronoun is really "itself".
In John though they point out that there is a masculine pronoun with Spirit in
Jn 14...however greek scholars like Daniel Wallace point out the antecedent is the masculine "comforter".
I always wondered why there seems to be only one gender for spirit...pneuma....so either they were trying to say spirit is neuter gender and OR there IS only one gender in the greek for Spirit.