Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:35 PM, David Hamuel wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It's not the same word in the sense of meaning.  The first means
>> "finished."  The second means "locked up."
>>
>> Really? I didn't know that. Get rid of the dagesh — what we have now?
>
> David, I was just adding that since I felt your point on these words
> was not clear, and it might be interpreted as if saying that it's the
> exact same word.  I'm sure you did know that, just what you said
> was ambiguous.  I also realize it is a good example of a minimal
> pair.  It came up in my search for such words from which I took the
> ones that I posted, but I limited myself because there were just too
> many examples.

And to add one little bit, your example is a perfect example of a
minimal pair, but most of mine (except qinnim/qinim and nicca/h,
and possibly licbo/licvo) are not.

Yitzhak Sapir