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  • From: Vadim Cherny <vadimcherny AT gmail.com>
  • To: cgrebe AT briercrest.ca
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] dagesh lene missing in caph - why?
  • Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:12:29 +0200

In my hypothesis, except for several narrow situations, dagesh occurs in either of the two environments:

post-tonic dagesh hazak (gemination helps avoid post-tonic reduction), and
in accented syllables after consonantal clusters (to prevent consonantal jamming of nizchAr - ni'char type)

birchatay is neither, thus no dagesh.

Vadim Cherny



Charles Grebe wrote:

In Genesis 33:11, the word "my blessing" (birchatay) does not have a
dagesh lene in the caph.



  • [b-hebrew] dagesh lene missing in caph - why?, Vadim Cherny, 02/24/2010

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