Ps 20:8 contains third and first person contrast. Eccl 5:1 has second and third person contrast, along with other grammatical contrasts to be discussed below. There may be incidental morphologic parallelism when a masculine noun is paired with a feminine noun, as in the common pair הרים // גבעות, “mountains (masc.) // hills (fem.).” The real contrast, however, comes when the same noun (or same root) appears in two different genders. Cassuto pointed out that there are Ugaritic
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