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  • From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 13:48:55 +0200

1. Well known biblical exceptions for words starting with BB, BP and KK are worth calling attention to:

עַל-לִבּוֹ בְּבֹאוֹ אֶל הַקֹּדֶשׁ Exodus 28: 29.

וַיְהִי בְּבוֹאוֹ וַיִּתְקַע בַּשּׁוֹפָר Judges 3:27

וְאִכָּבְדָה בְּפַרְעֹה וּבְכָל חֵילוֹ Exodus 14:4

הֲלֹא כְּכַרְכְּמִישׁ כַּלְנוֹ Isaiah 10:9

2. Indeed, few vestiges to soft initial B, K, P are left us now in: )AXAREY-KEN, LIPNEY-KEN, )AP-AL-PI-KEN, LO)-KEN? And LO)-KLUM. On the other hand B, K, P are hard now [by sanction of the Hebrew Academy] even following the close )IY-, ‘no-, un- dis-’, LO)-, ‘no, not’, and DU-, ‘double’, as in )IY-B.HIR-UT , ‘lack of clarity’, LO)-K.A$IR, ‘unfit’, DU-K.IWUNI, ‘bidirectional’.

3. Abolishing the dagesh altogether from Hebrew script would clear the orthography of a redundant mark and simplify the grammar.



Isaac Fried, Boston University



----- Original Message ----- From: "Yaakov Stein" <yaakov_s AT rad.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's



' Ve'avarti VE'eretz mitzrayim ba'lailah hazeh, ve-hikeiti
CHOL-bechor....'

I was wondering if anybody could explain why the usual dagesh-ed form
is not used!

The rule is very simple actually. The dagesh is dropped after an open
syllable.

This is always the case after an open syllable in the middle of a word,
and is also the case after open syllables at the end of the previous
word
when the two words are "connected" (i.e. the previous word has a
connecting cantillation mark).

Yaakov (J) Stein


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