Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>]

Dear Paul,
See Gesenius 20c

Paul Zellmer wrote:

> I think I must have fallen asleep in some class on phoneme variations
> for shin!  I ran across a dagesh in the initial shin of $FM and did a
> search on other cases.  I found 17 occurrences (there may be more, but
> that's what I turned up).  Yet this variation is not noted in the
> lexicons I consulted.  I also noted about ten other cases of
> word-initial shin with dageshes, but I only looked closely at the $FM.
> In all but three cases, the word follows an open syllable.  And in those
> three cases, the preceding word ends with FH.
>
> Is there some phonological "rule" resulting in the doubling of
> word-initial shin after an open syllable?  Does this apply to other
> sibilants?
>
> Paul
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Lee R. Martin
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Church of God Theological Seminary
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