Biblical Hebrew Forum

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Not quite, since the modern Israeli pronunciation is based on the Sefardic
tradition of pronouncing the Masora, which already has the sheva. So the
shift must have occured before the formulation of what became the tiberian
masora. What most Israelis would do in day-to-day speech, however, is not
pronounce the "mobile sheva", in other words say "Shmuel" and not
"Sh'muel". However if asked to speak clearly and "correctly", they would
say "Sh'muel". 

Yigal

Original Message:
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From: Jason Hare jason AT hareplay.com
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 02:22:11 -0600
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ancient pronunciation of biblical names


Shai Heijmans wrote:
> and because tiberian
> tradition died out, we are now pronouncing "shemuel" in hebrew with an
> "e", according to the sefaradic and ashkenazic tradition.

Or, we just form the consonant cluster "shm" (which is easy enough to
pronounce). "Shmu'el." Isn't that how the Israeli pronunciation would be
formed?

Regards,
Jason Hare

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