Biblical Hebrew Forum

[colin AT s-m-i-t-h.com]

On offline note produced one more correction:


> Actually, I think the joker in the deck is Deut 32:5, which the Mp notes
> as the only usage written thus - perhaps because this is the only instance
> in which the first lamed-was does not have a disjunctive accent.

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     but it does, tevir is a disjunctive accent


Very true. Reading in the wee hours I mistook it for a merka.

The correct difference is that Deut 32:5 is the only case in which the
second element, the Lo), is not marked by a conjunctive accent.

Colin