[b-hebrew] Phonetics of Ayin

K Randolph kwrandolph at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 19:35:07 EDT 2009


Jim:

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:17 AM,  <JimStinehart at aol.com> wrote:
>
…
>
> What’s going on here?  The Biblical authors do not seem to be making a
> concerted effort to use the ideal spelling of Tyre, which presumably should be
> CWR, not CR.
>
> Jim Stinehart
> Evanston, Illinois

What’s going on is that the “ideal spelling” is a modern invention,
not a Biblical pattern. The materes lexionis were very often left out
of written Biblical Hebrew in a lot of words, not just this name,
hence there is nothing special to be inferred from their absence in
these examples that you cite.

Karl W. Randolph.


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