Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dan Pater" <paterdr AT hotmail.com>]

John,

As per your request regarding special letters in the Leningrad Codex, and 
pending any more information for our corrrespondents...

This evening I have very quickly compiled the following text list giving the 
location of orthographical anomalies found in BHS, which follows Leningrad, 
as you know.  I am putting this into a spreadsheet (Excel) and will go 
through Leningrad, if this is useful, and compare that with the BHS.  This 
will be necessary because, for example, BHS puts a large letter in Lev 11:42 
where there is NOT one in L.  Both BHS and BHK variously note a small letter 
at Gen 2:4, but it's not in the edition and probably not in L.  You probably 
know the usual references for this kind of information, but just in case 
not, it can be found in Yeivin, _Introduction to the Tiberian Masorah_, and 
most accessibly in Page Kelley et al. _The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica 
Stuttgartensia_.  Ginsburg, Dotan, etc.  There are some references online, 
you've probably noticed,  but I, too, haven't come across a complete list 
for Leningrad, as you desire.

Thus this little work is still incomplete, e.g. I'd like to put the 
Leningrad folio and column references into the spreadsheet as I look them up 
to confirm their presence.
I'm also making a rich text file with the information (e.g. Hebrew words 
involved), and verse lists (à la _Bible Works_), too if you wish.   I guess 
that means you (and anyone else, of course) can contact me off-list if you 
want such files, and I'll get right to it.  Again, let me know if this is 
what you want, and if any of these file formats could be useful to you.

Dan Pater

Nequdoth - Puncta Extraordinaria listed in Sifre 69 (commentary to Num 9:10)
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Gen 16:5
Gen 18:9
Gen 19:33
Gen 33:4
Gen 37:12
Num 3:39
Num 9:10
Num 29:15
Deut 29:28
2 Sam 19:20
Isa 44:9
Eze 41:20
Eze 46:22
Ps 27:13

Nunim haphukah or menuzarot (Inverted / Isolated Nun)
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Num 10:34
Num 10:36
Psa 107:21
Psa 107:22
Psa 107:23
Psa 107:24
Psa 107:25
Psa 107:26
Psa 107:40

Suspended Letters
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Jdg 18:30
Psa 80:14
Job 38:13
Job 38:15

Large Letters
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Lev 11:42
Num 27:5
Deu 6:4
Deu 6:4 (sic)

Small Letters
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Isa 44:14
Jer 39:13
Pro 16:28