Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 28/06/2007 22:30, Harold Holmyard wrote:
> ...
> > I don't have access to GKC.
> >   
> >     
>
> Well, grammars like GKC exist to answers questions like this.
>   
> > I have found some other Resh with a dagesh in them:
> > 1 Sam 1:6
> > 1 Sam 10:24
> > 1 Sam 17:25
> > Just to name a few.
> >
> > So this brings me to my question:
> > How do you know?
> >
> > By looking at a root, how can you tell how the Resh is to be handled?
> > Is there a system or method, or is it just haphazard?
> >
> > Very befuddling.
> >   
> >     
And GKC does not answer John's question. In sections 22s and 64e it 
lists these examples and a few others as exceptions, but it does not 
explain them. GKC is a useful resource but does not answer all questions 
like these.

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