Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Charles Grebe <cgrebe AT briercrest.ca>]

Hi Ken,

Could you give me a quick definition of radical letters? Also, how are
these related to "servile" letters? 

I found a discussion of this in A grammar of the Hebrew language By
Samuel Lee on Google books, but it's still not clear to me what makes a
letter radical.
http://books.google.com/books?id=JCsa-9Z2j3QC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=hebrew
+servile+letter&source=web&ots=AOw3Nl-iAj&sig=RKOBvAdyQDCziN-QW4M9G70xZo
Y#PPA11,M1

Thanks,

Charles Grebe
Director of Distance Learning
Briercrest College and Seminary
www.briercrest.ca



> -----Original Message----- 
> Qimron says in the DSS Alef is used as a to indicate a medial 
> vowel letter only when it is radical. But he notes (_The 
> Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls_, p.22n18) that in biblical 
> texts "non-radical alef does sometimes represent these sounds 
> -- See Kutscher, _Isaiah_, pp. 160-162; Qimron, _Leshonenu_ 
> 39 (1975), pp;. 133-146."
> 
> Ken
 
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