Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David H <ai_ya AT hotmail.co.uk>]

I have noticed some strange occurences of words that do not use a Dagesh 
where it would expect one; specifically, the preposition 'be' [in] and 'kol' 
[all],  which were both written as 've' and 'chol' [i.e no dagesh].
 
This came up in Exodus 12:12 ;
 
' Ve'avarti VE'eretz mitzrayim ba'lailah hazeh, ve-hikeiti CHOL-bechor....'
 
I was wondering if anybody could explain why the usual dagesh-ed form is not 
used!
 
Thanks a lot!
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