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<snip>
3. An initial Yod or Nun has dropped.  This could only
be true if the root
has a prefix.


GJ - Sometimes an initial Lamed can drop out like the
Nun.  Eg. first word in Gen. 2:15.

<snip>

Four initial radicals can drop (apocopate):

I-y
I-n
I-h (HLK only)
I-l (LQX only)

All four also drop (apocopate) to form the qal [G] infinitive construct 
(with added /t/ and segholization); e.g., LEDET. There is no prefix in 
this form. [Prefixed prepositions are functionally supplementary, not 
intrinsic to the form.]

Blessings.

Fred

Frederic Clarke Putnam, Ph.D.
Professor of Old Testament
Biblical Theological Seminary
Hatfield, Pennsylvania
215.368.5000x150

in ferro veritas.
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I can't follow this discussion because I don't know what Hebrew letters =
you mean by which English letters - could you please help with this? =
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Uh - no, Marianne

Karnei is not the plural of rays - it is the plural of rays "OF" 
something, ie: light

The plural of rays by itself is karnaim.

Rays OF something (ie light) = karnei - something

Rays alone = karnaim

shoshanna






More likely is the meaning ascribed to Moshe's "karnaim" - that his
face shown so much, that rays of light protruded from it.

Keren Or = ray of light



Yes, except that the plural of rays is "karney" and those of horns "karnaim".