[b-hebrew] About Dagesh's
Yaakov Stein
yaakov_s at rad.com
Sun May 25 01:05:51 EDT 2008
> ' 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!
The rule is very simple actually. The dagesh is dropped after an open
syllable.
This is always the case after an open syllable in the middle of a word,
and is also the case after open syllables at the end of the previous
word
when the two words are "connected" (i.e. the previous word has a
connecting cantillation mark).
Yaakov (J) Stein
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