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  • From: "B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>
  • To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ezeliel 36:3 (from SHaMeM to SHaMoT)?
  • Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:05:51 -0400

Hi Chris,

I don't think anyone responded to your query, so let me take a try.

shamem is not a strong root. It is a geminate root (having "twins" for the
second and third radicals). Geminates, as a class, sometimes demonstrate
idiosyncracies that leave them looking like hollow or third he roots in
certain forms, but there is a high degree of variation from geminate root to
geminate root (and sometimes even within the same form of the same root!).
The word shammot in Ez 36:3 is a qal infinitive that represents the doubled
mem with a dagesh, but has the -ot ending that we expect on the infinitive
of a third he root. I think there are a few geminate roots whose qal
infinitives have this -ot ending.

Shalom, Bryan

> Dear All,
>
> Ezekiel 36:3 QAL VERB: shin-mem-mem; I have a list that says; the verb
in
> this sentence is taken from SHiMeM which I thought was a feminine noun.
Yet
> Shoshan lists it as a QAL VERB. Added to all this How did we get from a
> strong verb in qal perfect to SHaMoT with this conjugation?
>
> thankyou, Chris.
>
>
>

B. M. Rocine
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  • Re: [b-hebrew] Ezeliel 36:3 (from SHaMeM to SHaMoT)?, B. M. Rocine, 06/02/2004

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