Biblical Hebrew Forum

["JAMES CHRISTIAN READ" <JCR128 AT student.anglia.ac.uk>]

PB: Karl,

 >>Slight correction. Though they are rare, there are a
 >>few examples of the masc. pl. noun marker lacking the
 >>medial Yod. I don't remember off the top of my head
 >>where they are found, but I remember the first time
 >>I ran across one while reading the unpointed text, it
 >>added a couple of lines to my forehead.

I was very close to qualifying this with an "almost always", but I  
couldn't quite remember if there was an exception or not.

JCR: Yeah! I've seen this as well. I can't remember 
where, but it was quite confusing.

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James Christian Read - BSc Computer Science 
http://www.lamie.org/hebrew       -  thesis1: concept driven machine 
translation using the Aleppo codex 
http://www.lamie.org/lad-sim.doc  -  thesis2: language acquisition simulation

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