Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Petr Tomasek wrote:

>  > I've thought about it some more and it seems to me that the form with 
> qamats
>  > is to be explained as an archaic form displaced by analogy.  While 
> analogy is
>  > a normal linguistic process which displaces older forms, the older forms
>  > sometime survive in restricted contexts.  One would still have to figure 
> out
>  > the exact analogy, however.
>  >
>  > Yitzhak Sapir
>
>  Couldn't this be a "Pausa"?

What is a "pausa"?  Do you mean special variations on words when they appear 
in
a pausal context as far as the cantillation marks is concerned.  If
so, please read
my earlier message on the subject.

Yitzhak Sapir