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RE: [b-hebrew] "Shaf`el" in Hebrew?

From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
To: "'Yitzhak Sapir'" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>, "'b-hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] "Shaf`el" in Hebrew?
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:41:11 -0500

Perhaps he is thinking of nouns with a Sh prefix: ??????????? Shalhevet
(flame), ?????????? Shabbelul (snail), Sheqa`arurot (hollow; Lev. 14:37),
?????????????

These are mentioned in GKC 55.i

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A. (Hebrew Poetry)
Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster University
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> In Semitic Languages: An Introduction (Hebrew), by Chaim Rabin, 1991,
> Biblical Encyclopedia Library, Chaim Rabin makes the
> following statement (p.
> 55): "[In the period of the First Temple,] the `Shafel`
> causative binyan
> disappears (although there is enough evidence to show it
> existed) and the
> `Haf`el` that became `Hiph`il` becomes the only causative
> binyan."

> So why is he saying that there is enough evidence to show it
> existed?

RE: [b-hebrew] "Shaf`el" in Hebrew?, Ken Penner, 01/31/2005