Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 09/06/2005 05:30, tladatsi AT charter.net wrote:

> Thanks to everyone for the interesting discussion.  
>
> OK, I got the *defective* holem vav part.  What about the 
> qamats though.  Liver is spelled with a qamets under the 
> kaf and glory has a shewa under the kaf.  In each of the 
> four cases where the defective holem vav occured in *glory*
> , the shewa replaced the qamets, which was part of my 
> confusion on issue.
>
>  
No, this is not correct. Both words have qamats in the absolute state, 
and sheva in the construct state or with a personal suffix. This is the 
regular pattern of alternation for bisyllabic nouns with qamats in the 
first syllable. In fact I don't think the construct of "liver" is found 
in the Hebrew Bible, but the word is found with a personal suffix in 
Proverbs 7:23, Lamentations 2:11. "Glory" occurs with qamats and 
defective holam in Genesis 31:1 and Nahum 2:10. Data courtesy of BDB, 
checked with BHS.

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