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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Any meaning to the Dagesh?
  • Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:08:27 -0800

David:

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM, David Hamuel
<davidhamuel AT sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Yitzhak,
>
> > just what you said was ambiguous.
>
> OK. Psalms 72:20 & 1 Samuel 6:10 — The same exact word, different meaning.
>

No, not the same exact word. The same exact grapheme, as the Alep was
sometimes dropped in writing, but it is a different word. Did it have a
different pronunciation in Biblical times? We don’t know, and can’t know.

>
>
> — David
>

Karl W. Randolph.




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