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.. _noun_gentilic:

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.

Article
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Biblical Hebrew expresses national, tribal, or ancestral identity using nouns that (usually) immediately follow the noun they
describe.  For this reason, some scholars prefer to classify gentilic nouns as :ref:`gentilic adjectives<adjective_gentilic>`,
because they appear in the same position as :ref:`attributive adjectives<adjective-attributive>`.
Either classification is grammatically correct.

Examples
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.. csv-table:: Example: GEN 16:1

  וְלָ֛הּ שִׁפְחָ֥ה מִצְרִ֖ית
  
  And-to-her slave-girl **Egyptian**
  "but she had a female servant, **an Egyptian,**"

.. csv-table:: Example: LEV 24:10

  "וַיֵּצֵא֙ בֶּן־אִשָּׁ֣ה **יִשְׂרְאֵלִ֔ית** וְהוּא֙ בֶּן־אִ֣ישׁ
     מִצְרִ֔י"
  
  "And-he-went-out son-of\_woman **Israelite** and-he son-of\_man
     **Egyptian**"
  "Now it happened that the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was
     an Egyptian, went"