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  • From: Vadim Cherny <him AT vadimcherny.org>
  • To: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • Cc: b-hebrew Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:33:25 +0300

That's a legitimate use, if we accept that word-initial dagesh always serves to prevent concatenation.

Vadim Cherny


Isaac Fried wrote:
Here are two instances of a dagesh having apparently the sole purpose of marking the first letter of a word; specifically, to warn against the moving of an U from the end of a word to the beginning of the next.
1. קוּמוּ צְּאוּ מִתּוֹךְ עַמִּי, Exodus 12:31, to prevent the reading QUM
UC)U.
2. קוּמוּ סְּעוּ וְעִבְרוּ אֶת-נַחַל אַרְנֹן, Deuteronomy 2:24, to prevent the reading QUM US(U.
Isaac Fried, Boston University






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