Biblical Hebrew Forum

[alfred.silberman AT lmco.com (Al Silberman)]

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net> wrote:

>>Cane anyone tell me which Hebrew vowel is/was known as
>>qamaz hatuf?
>
>its this one-    t:  (i.e.- the little t of the qametz with the shewa)- the
>qametz hatuf is a half vowel, pronounced as a shor "o".

In the time of the "Rishonim" (11th through 15th centuries approximately)
the terminology distinguished between a "xatuf qametz" and a "qametz
xatuf". A "xatuf qametz" - term still used today - is a schwa written in
combination with a qametz. The "qametz xatuf" is written as a qametz alone
and is today called a qametz qatan - the short vowel form for the xolem.