DATA BUG: Good job tricking me with a female dressed as a male i.e. Shimeath

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,491
edited November 2024 in English Forum

This gender mismatch threw me when I was trying to add a community tag ...

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • Sean Boisen
    Sean Boisen Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,452

    MJ, glad to see you're back at work improving our data [:)]

    LBD and others note there's a textual problem here: the account in Kings uses a conventional expression that would imply Shimeath was male, but the form of the name looks feminine, and 2 Chr 24:26 has a feminine version of the gentilic adjective (hence NIV's "an Ammonite woman"). We'll take another look and see if there's a better resolution: but no trickery was involved, just ambiguity in the text.

  • Liz Licata
    Liz Licata Member, Logos Employee Posts: 30

    I have edited the description to reflect the ambiguity of the text, which will be in the next update of Factbook. My apologies for the confusion.

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