Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

Karl Randolph wrote:

> Anyways, because Maqef is not found in archaic Hebrew, I think it 
> very easy for there to be disagreement on placement and number of 
> Maqefs, I did not consider the total number of Maqefs.

I think Maqqafs denote the absence of a word division where a more 
modern division would divide the words.  This is suggested, among 
other things, by many places where words separated by a Maqqaf 
take only one "accent" for all of them.  If a dot existed in archaic
Hebrew, so did its absence.

Yitzhak Sapir