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  • From: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: Karl Randolph <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Excess consonants in the WLC Torah.
  • Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:16:46 +0300

Karl Randolph wrote:

> Anyways, because Maqef is not found in archaic Hebrew, I think it
> very easy for there to be disagreement on placement and number of
> Maqefs, I did not consider the total number of Maqefs.

I think Maqqafs denote the absence of a word division where a more
modern division would divide the words. This is suggested, among
other things, by many places where words separated by a Maqqaf
take only one "accent" for all of them. If a dot existed in archaic
Hebrew, so did its absence.

Yitzhak Sapir




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