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In Biblical Hebrew, some gentilic nouns that follow nouns in the absolute state function like attributive adjectives. Some scholars call these "gentilic adjectives" instead of gentilic nouns, and either term is grammatically correct.

• GEN 16:1

וְלָ֛הּ שִׁפְחָ֥ה מִצְרִ֖ית

And-to-her slave-girl **Egyptian**

but she had a female servant, **an Egyptian,**

• 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