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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 13:08:46 +0000

On 15/03/2006 12:37, Rolf Furuli wrote:
Dear Yitzhak,

Origen transcribes WA- and WE- as OU- before nouns particles and other words as well as before verbs. It does not appear that YOD is ever geminated in the manuscripts that have been found, but the material is very small. I am not aware of any instance where YOD should have been geminated, but is not.

Except of course for OUIEDABBER in Psalm 18:48, which if you are comparing with the Masoretic text certainly "should have been geminated". The absence of any examples of consonantal geminated iota in the Hexapla, and for that matter in all of the transcribed Hebrew etc names in the LXX and the New Testament (even where the underlying Hebrew has geminated yod as in `ayyah, 1 Chronicles 7:28, where the Greek is GAIA), clearly demonstrates that Greek simply did not use double iota as a consonant. This is sufficient in itself to explain the lack of gemination in the Greek form OUIEDABBER, even if the underlying Hebrew was in fact geminated.

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