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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] shwa
  • Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:33:07 +0000

On 15/03/2006 06:53, Rolf Furuli wrote:
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My Question was about Origen's use of vowels. If he, where the Masoretes used shewa, used the original vowel, and he used OU- both for WAYYAIQTOL and WEYIQTOL, wouldn't that mean that both forms in his view had the same vowel?

Surely Origen's OU- (omicron, upsilon) doesn't represent a vowel at all, but, according to common usage in Greek transcription, the consonant sound [w]. So I would want to ask what follows this OU-: a consonant (and if so, is it ever doubled?), or a vowel, and if so which vowel? Are there any differences in the patterns between WAYYIQTOL and WEYIQTOL verbs, as recorded by the Masoretes? Since you say that there are only 18 such verb forms surviving from the Hexapla, perhaps it would be possible to share these 18 with the list, with their Masoretic equivalents or their references.

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