Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dr. Joel M. Hoffman" <joel AT exc.com>]

>> >> But once you come to the realization that a shwa represents the lack
>> >> of a vowel --- no more, no less --- everything because eaiser and more
>> >>
>
>I understood you saying in the quoted message that each schwa represents a
>vowel. Thus, the question, what vowel is represented by schwa in niphal?

I don't know how I can be clearer.  "Shwa"="no vowel."  When there's
no vowel, there's a shwa.  That's it.

Tiberian Hebrew orthography requires a mark under (almost) every
non-final letter.  When there's no vowel sound, and thus no vowel
mark, a shwa gets written.

-Joel


Joel M. Hoffman, PhD
http://www.exc.com/JoelHoffman