Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Hi all,

Does anyone think that there might be a connection between the words $pxh 
(shifxah - a female slave or "handmaiden", more or less the same as "amah") 
and m$pxh (mishpaxah - an extended family, clan or phratry)? What is know 
about the etymology of the two words?

Thanks,

Yigal
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A. Philip Brown II wrote:

> Could someone please remind me what 'yathir readings' are?
>
> The Westminster Hebrew Morphology identifies "Yathir readings in L which we
> have designated as Qeres when both Dothan and BHS list a Qere."

According to Emanuel Tov's Introduction to Textual Criticism (Hebrew), p. 47:
A few instances of Qere were marked in the Massorah as "yathir" (usually as
"yathir y'" or "yathir w'"), that is, in reading (Qere), one should
ignore the yod
or waw (which are "extra" - "yathir")

Yitzhak Sapir