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Looks like it is a dittography. The precedding word is LWM, it just gets 
repeated before R:BB"H.  If you have a BHS it is illustrated in the apparatus.

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Kelton Graham 
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> Hallo, Could someone perhaps offer some ideas as to why the 'mem' in the 
> word for: 'increase' is written this way? 
> Thankyou, Chris. 
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Hallo Members,

I seem to be a little (or a lot) confused by the myriad of scripts that I
have managed to download from Near Eastern languages and the things that
people are saying.

To the point - My question:  The samaritan script? It surely must have been
the assyrian script as well?  Sice the people that were moved to Northern
Israel at the time of its emptying of hebrews were from Assyria and Chaldea
right?  So they would have brought their writing with them? I have a
document before me that gives the impression that the samaritans adopted the
old aramaic/proto hebrew - which seems totally absurd!

Chris