Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lewis Reich" <lewreich AT javanet.com>]

On 13 Jul 99, at 16:28, gs02wmr AT panther.Gsu.EDU wrote:

> 
> I believe it is Mem, Taw, Samekh, Lamed, Mem.
> 
> How could it be a Shin in there; that would make it "mitaSHlem," which is
> not what I wrote.

Could be that Jim thought, as I did, of the sin, which differs from the 
shin only in the placement of the dot; just as the one might say "bet" 
in referring to both forms of the letter (with(bet) and without (vet) the 
dagesh), one might similarly refer to the sin as a shin.

Lewis Reich
lewreich AT javanet.com