Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 11/09/2003 17:21, DrJDPrice AT aol.com wrote:

> Prepositive Yethib occurs only on monosyllables, or on bisyllables accented 
> on the first syllable, so no need ever exists for it to be repeated.
>
> The Koren edition is the only edition I found that repeats Great Tellisha (I 
> don't have Bauer), but I have only the electronic Koren edition, not the 
> printed edition. The electronic edition seems to place the second Great Tellisha on 
> the upper left corner of the first consonant of the accented syllable. I 
> suspect that proper place is over the middle of the first consonant as shown in 
> GKC. A printed Koren edition should answer that question.
>
> The only other prepositive accent is Dechi used in the Poetical Books. I 
> found no edition that repeated Dechi, not even Koren.
>
> Best regards,
> James D. Price
> Prof. of Hebrew and OT
> Temple Baptist Seminary
> Chattanooga, TN.
>
>  
Thank you, Dr Price. This agrees well with some answers I received on 
another list, so I am glad to be sure that this is correct.

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