[b-hebrew] Is 9:6 Mem clausum?
Tigran Aivazian
tigran at bibles.org.uk
Fri Mar 18 09:38:38 EST 2005
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Dave Washburn wrote:
> On Thursday 17 March 2005 12:54, wattswestmaas wrote:
>> Hallo, Could someone perhaps offer some ideas as to why the 'mem' in the
>> word for: 'increase' is written this way?
>> Thankyou, Chris.
>
> Based on the Qere correction by the Masoretes, it looks like a simple scribal
> error.
>
> Incidentally, if anybody uses the free Westminster Leningrad Codex module, the
> Qere here has an error in it. Rather than showing the final mem, it shows
> exactly the same form as the Qere, but with a different accent. If somebody
> from that project is on this list, that's an FYI. If you can tell me how to
> fix it in my copy (I'm using GnomeSword with the Ezra SIL font) that would be
> a Very Good Thing (TM).
I have checked the actual facsimile of L and also the reasonably latest
(4.3) Westminster Leningrad Codex source and confirm that, indeed, WLC
doesn't match B19A at Isa 9:6 wrt final mem.
The PDF version of WLC is still at v4.2 at the moment but I hope to find
some time to move it to 4.3 soon.
I can't remember if the Michigan encoding actually allows such things like
"m<EOW>" i.e. to force a final mem in the middle of the word. If it
doesn't, then I will manually fix this for Isa 9:6 when I upload 4.3
version of WLC-B19A.pdf to www.bibles.org.uk.
Shalom
Tigran
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