Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

Hi Pere,

There is no semantic difference between the two aside from that of the 
suffixes. Paradigmatically, with the suffix verb qamets shortens to 
pathah before 1cs suffix.

Regards,
David Kummerow.



> 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)