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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] A question
  • Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 04:34:20 -0700

On 02/07/2003 22:28, Pere Porta Roca wrote:

I'm asking: the holam generally written on the aleph in such words as in Jb
30:16 (3d. word before the end of verse), in Jr 13:21 (4th word before the
end of verse), should it not be put on the preceding iod instead of on the
aleph?


Does anyone of you know if in today Israeli hebrew must this holam be
written as a waw (a waw that should be written between the iod and the
aleph)?

My advanced heartly thanks to those who will replay.

Pere



I remember recommending that in BH texts such a holam should be encoded as if following the preceding consonant, yod in this case, and that the move to the following aleph (only I think if there is no other vowel on the aleph) should be a matter of rendering in the font. A commoner example is the word ro'sh, "head", the start of which must be distinguished from the start of r:'oh (Gen 48:11, shewa under resh, holam at left side of aleph), the infinitive construct of r'h "see".

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