Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

 Aren't the "chatafim"  unique to the MT? In Arabic grammer there is a sh'wa, 
the "skun", but no mobile sh'wa ( shwa na'), and certainly no "chatafim". The 
latter reflected the Masoretes sharp hearing of the actual pronounciation of 
biblical reading; and indeed phoentically there is a slight deviation from a 
strictly unwovelled pronounciation of the guttorals.  This slight deviation 
they marked with the various chatafim as they heard them, patach,segol etc. 
They definitely did not hear them as full vowels, for in that case they would 
not have felt the need for a new notation.
 
The same applies to a moblie sh'wa.
 
Now, mistakes occurred, and were carried forward from one edition to the next 
because of the nature of the texts. When one has thousands of examples of 
chatafim, (I never counted them!)  with only a handful of  exceptions to 
their normal occurrence  -- as in Lev. 25: 34 for exmple --  one need not 
look for rationalization of  mistakes by describing them as a "long sh'wa"  
-- a contradiction in terms -- or as a means for "emphasizing the vocal 
character of the sh'wa", whatever that phrase means, or any other explanation 
other than the sad fact that not all that is done by humans is perfect!
 
Uri



>
> Yigal Levin wrote, inter alia:
>..."which still does not explain the reason. It apparently has 
to do with a
no-longer current tradition of using the Hataph-Patah as a 
"long" Shewa."

Yigal

> > In most primts that I've seen, the second letter (Sin) of the first word
> > of Lev. 25:34, "usedeh" is vocalized with a Hataph-Patah; in Brauer and
> > BHS it has a Shewa. Any guesses about the source of the unusual
spelling?
>
> Giuseppe Regalzi wrote:
>
> > GKC (§ 10g, pp. 52-53) puts it this way:
> >
> > "Hateph-Pathah is found instead of simple Shewa (especially Shewa
mobile),
> > chiefly … (b) under initial sibilants after וּ copulative, e.g. 
> > וּזֲהַב
Gn
> > 2:12; cf. Jer 48:20; וּסֲחַר Is 45:14; וּשֲׂדֵה Lv 25:34; 
> > וּשֲׁקָה Gn
> > 27:26; וּשֲׁמָע Nu 23:18, Is 37:17, Dn 9:18, cf. Ju 5:12, 1 K 
> > 14:21, 2 K
> > 9:17, Jb 14:1, Ec 9:7—to emphasize the vocal character of the Shewa."
> >
> > See also Joüon-Muraoka, § 8a n. 4, p. 51.
>
>


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wattswestmaas wrote:
> Just when you think you learned the rules along comes something
> isruptive  - please can someone put me straight here.
> 
> Exodus 31:18  K'TuViM (written)  an adjectivial participle that does not fit
> the rules. That can not be I know that I am wrong - BUT I can not see it
> fitting anything other than a Qal category (no prefix) but then the 'qibbus'
> throws me - what am I missing?

It's a Qal passive, which as the MT is pointed only shows up in the 
participle.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics