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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: tladatsi AT charter.net
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Re: Liver & Glory - Qamets & Shewa
  • Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:58:48 +0100

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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