Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 02/02/2005 02:20, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> ...
>
> Finally, a$er is spelled out in poetry, and $ used in prose, if I remember
> correctly.  It's not so clear cut.
>
>  
I don't think this is right. According to BDB, $- is found 19 times in 
Psalms (all from 122 onwards), 4 times in Lamentations, exclusively in 
Song of Songs, and 68 times in Ecclesiastes, plus perhaps Genesis 49:10 
as we were discussing recently and Job 19:29.

$- takes patah also in Song of Songs 1:7 and perhaps Job 19:29, as well 
as twice in Judges 5:7. Also in Judges 6:17 it takes qamats before alef, 
in what looks like compensatory lengthening of patah (but segol is more 
common before alef).

$- is probably not an abbreviation of )$R as forms like $- are more 
widespread among Semitic languages.

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