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Re: [b-hebrew] Qamats or patah?

From: <pporta AT oham.net>
To: "David Kummerow" <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>, "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Qamats or patah?
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:50:43 +0100

I compare the word HBY)TNY in 2Sa 7:18 with the word HBY)TNW in Nm 16:14 and I wonder why the first has patah under taw while the latter has qamats instead.

I assume these are words of the same structural pattern, with the only difference of the personal pronoun at the end.

Is there any good reason for this different vowels in structurally identical words?

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Spain)

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