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  • From: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re : Re : hatuf patah under the lamed (LHBDYL) in Gen 1, 18 and Lev 10, 10
  • Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 06:04:43 +0200

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Isaac Fried wrote:
>> Yitzhak,
>>
>> My school bible has ha$$omea( with only one shin. Is a dot in a Hebrew
>> letter a cue forĀ stuttering?
>
> It is a cue to read the texts written by the people who wrote the dot in the
> first place as to what they meant when they wrote the dots.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir

I want to rephrase: The people who wrote the dot also wrote texts describing
what the dots mean for pronunciation. If you see a dot, it is a cue to read
those texts.

Yitzhak Sapir




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