Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

But there is conformation that the Masoretic pronunciation is in the 
right ball park from the Greek form hebraios, which goes at least back 
to the New Testament, I don't know how much earlier it is attested. So 
it looks like there was no long vowel between the b and the r at least 
by the 1st century CE.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Long vowel in hab/piru
Author:  <yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il> at Internet
Date:    20/02/2000 15:51


The long second vowel a in hab/piru would not disappear in Hebrew, but 
the
question is if the naqdanim or Masoretes correctly reproduced the 
ancient
Hebrew pronunciation of the word 'ibry. 
Jonathan D. safren

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From: Niels Peter Lemche [mailto:npl AT teol.ku.dk] 
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 1:16 PM
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Hab/piru-hebrews

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