[b-hebrew] Inseparable Prepositions and that shewa
Vadim Cherny
vadimcherny at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 13:47:21 EDT 2010
Though not attested, there's no doubt about the absence of dagesh kal
in bitechem.
Binchem has no gemination; what except intonational difference in
chanting can explain its difference from michtav?
Speaking of gemination, no nun in gav, yet gabcha. What we see here is
kal rather than hazak. The Masoretes used kal to forcibly syllabify:
bi-.nchem, ga-.bcha.
Vadim Cherny
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The word bittakhem ('your daughter') is not attested in the Bible.
But its
syllabification is obviously different from mikht at v because the second
letter is doubled to compensate for the loss of the -n- from original
*bnt
'daughter'
Yitzhak Sapir
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