[b-hebrew] About Dagesh's
Vadim Cherny
him at vadimcherny.org
Sat May 24 14:21:09 EDT 2008
It's about syllabification. Dagesh (a stop) was introduced to prevent
consonantal jamming in clusters, sort of:
natan voker - nata nvoker - nata 'voker
rather,
natan .voker - natan boker
Now, in your example, there is no danger of concatenation and subsequent
jamming:
veavar-ti ve-eretz
As a rule, word-initial dagesh doesn't appear when the previous word
ends with -CCV.
Vadim Cherny
David H wrote:
> I have noticed some strange occurences of words that do not use a Dagesh where it would expect one; specifically, the preposition 'be' [in] and 'kol' [all], which were both written as 've' and 'chol' [i.e no dagesh].
>
> This came up in Exodus 12:12 ;
>
> ' Ve'avarti VE'eretz mitzrayim ba'lailah hazeh, ve-hikeiti CHOL-bechor....'
>
> I was wondering if anybody could explain why the usual dagesh-ed form is not used!
>
> Thanks a lot!
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