Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>]

Thanks Harold. I see Weingreen has 2 nice sections on it.
-Steve

> 
> HH: Steve, any good Hebrew grammar should discuss the concept of pausal
> forms. See Gesenius  Kautch Cowley 29i-v, or  check the index in Waltke
> and O'Connor.
> 
> The former understands pause as "the strong tress laid on the
> tone-syllable in the last word of a sentence (verse) or clause."
> 
> The latter define pause as "the break in Masoretic verse division
> associated with the end of a verse (marked with silluq and sof pasuq) or
> the middle of a verse (usually marked with athnach); a form in pause may
> show various phonological shifts, in accentuation or vacalization or
> both."
> 
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard