Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Charles Grebe <cgrebe AT briercrest.ca>]

Hi Ken,

So I assume the usage of the term "radical" in Samuel Lee's grammar (below) 
is different. I assume he does NOT mean root letters.

Lee lists a select number of what he calls "servile" letters (משה איתן וכלה) 
and then says the others are radical, but clearly these so called "servile" 
letters also function as root letters. Are you familiar with Lee's usage of 
radical and servile?

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Penner [mailto:ken.penner AT acadiau.ca] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:21 AM
> To: Charles Grebe; B-Hebrew
> Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] K)RW with alef as mater lectionis?
> 
> Hi Charles,
> 
> "Radical" means "pertaining to the root." 
> So radical Alef is an Alef that is one of the three 
> consonants of the Hebrew root. In the word אמלא )ML) "I will 
> fill," the first Alef is not radical, but the final Alef is.
> 
> Ken
> 

> > 
> > 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-Q
> W4M9G70xZo
> > Y#PPA11,M1
> > 
> 

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