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RE: Jonah

From: "Trevor & Julie Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Jonah
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:36:41 -0500

Daladier wrote:

> In Jonah 1:2 the conjunction is used for labials, UQeRA on the contrary of
> WeQeRA. Usually this format is used to Wav, Mem, Bet e Pei. Any
> suggestions?

You've got half of the picture by watching for shureq before those
consonants. The other half is that it usually appears before any consonant
followed by shva.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics

Jonah, Daladier Lima, 11/05/2002
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