Hebrew Gender

All nouns in Hebrew are either Male or Female

Male in Hebrew is the word zakar meaning "marked" or "remembered".

Examples below

• Heaven
• evening and morning and day and night
• light (as a luminous body) and darkness
• months and stars
• angels and Adam and the host
• The writings and the prophets
• The water and the blood ("dam")
• The head and the heart (centre)
• The book or letters ("cepher") and death.

Objective data.

Female in Hebrew neqebah comes from naqab ("Drawn forth" or "Expressed").

Subjective issues

Words like

• Spirit (wind, cool)
• truth
• earth ("erets"), ground ("adamah")
• Names of countries and cities and body parts
• "Nephesh" (breath or soul) from a verb "Naphash" (to be refreshed) and "Naphach" (to breathe)
• body
• sheol (hell) from a verb "sha-al" – to ask for one's identity, for one's place, and require the answer in full

  Related (in the afterlife) to the consuming flames of hell for those not in Christ

• torah (the law) from a verb "yara" (to teach)
• your book (Psalm 56:8) ("ciphrah")
• years (cycles).

Nouns that are drawn out from objective facts or verbs. A process. Not so simple to define quickly.

Note that frequently in Hebrew a masculine noun is made feminine by adding the letter ה (he) — "a" as in Ishshah (woman) from Iysh (man). Another suffix is ת (tav) — "t". But this is by no means universal.

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