Biblical Hebrew Forum

["B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>]

Hi Yitzak,

Will you count the 3. m. s. pronominal suffixes as final he maters? 
There are many of them that are pronounced /o/: (line 6) vayyahlephoh, 
benoh, (7) boh, ubetoh, (8) moh, beyamoh, etc.

I admit, when we pronounce such final he's as /o/, we may be using 
anachronistic pronunciation rules.  IOW, they may have been consonants 
as, I think, Joel Hoffman mentioned as a general possibility for 
epigraphic Hebrew ("Moabite").

Shalom,
Bryan

Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> The Mesha stele also uses -h for apparently final -a, in bllh (in the
> night, line 15).
> I was more convinced this is a mater lectionis than all the -o examples 
> because
> all the -o examples are proper names: qrxh, dwdh, nbh.  Do we know if there 
> was
> no consonantal heh in those names?