Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Chris,

The other three men were right. You were asking about the pausal 
form, and I misunderstood you. Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley 29m says that 
when a full vowel in a tone bearing final syllable has lost the tone 
before an afformative, and has become a vocal Shewa, it is restored 
in pause as tone-vowel, and, if short, is lengthened. One example 
given is $iM:(W ("they heard"), which in pause becomes $:Mf(W

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard

> Subject:  EZEKIEL  20:7 AND 18  HITPAEL STEM.
>
> Why, in place of the expected 'sheva' under the 'mem' in the verb: "defile
> yourselves", am I dissappointed to see an irritating little 'qames'??