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

Hi Chris,

If you look at Second Temple period mss., such as some of the DSS, you will
see that what we call the "final" mem was often used in the middle of the
word as well. Basically, the two forms were interchangable. In this one
place, the MT preserves that ancient scribal tradition.

Yigal

----- Original Message -----
From: "wattswestmaas" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:54 PM
Subject: [b-hebrew] Is 9:6 Mem clausum?


> 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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