Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Yitzhak,

By writing "qibbacu" you subvert the hebrew text. Apart from the A  
vowel that I don't see there, it is written with only one B.
The QINIYM ( קִנִּים ) of Gn 6:14 is written in QTIB XASER,  
without a yod, and the dagesh is appropriately expected after the  
XIRIQ. The doubling of N is your own invention. The QIYNIYM   
( קִינִים ) of Ez 2:10 is written in QTIB MALE), with a yod,  
and appropriately without a dagesh.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 26, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Since I'm sure we've run through the guard interrogative/definite  
> article
> example quite a bit, and since my example of the queen and her king
> seems to have lost something in the translation, I figured some more
> examples might be useful:
>
> qivcu "gather them!" 1 Sam 7:5
> qibbacu "they gathered" Joel 2:6
>
> xizqu "be strong!" Deut 31:6
> xizzaqu "they strengthened" Jer 5:3
>
> sifru "count!" Ps 48:13
> sipparu "they told" Ps 75:2
>
> limdu "learn!" Is 1:17
> limmadu "they learned" Jer 9:4
>
> $ivru "buy" Is 55:1
> $ibbaru "they broke" 2 Ki 11:18
>
> Some more varied ones:
>
> qinnim "nests/compartments" Gen 6:14
> qinim "lamentations" Ezekiel 2:10
>
> $ilxo "his weapon" 2 Chron 23:10
> $illaxo "he sent him away" 2 Sam 3:22
>
> nicca "ripe fruit" Is 18:5
> niccah "its flower" Gen 40:10
>
> middavar "over the words of" 2 Sam 19:44
> midbar "desert" Ex 19:1
>
> miggava(ot "of the hills of" Is 2:2
> migba(ot "hats" Lev 8:13
>
> There even appears one case where a dagesh qal appears phonemic:
> licvo "to be on duty" Nu 4:23, Num 8:24
> licbo "to fight against" Is 31:4
> However, [b] and [v] are already known to be phonemic in Tiberian
> Hebrew.  In fact, in the above example, perhaps Num 4:23, 8:24 are
> derived from the Qal of cwy but have come to be spelled as lcb)
> because the Qal is so rare.  If this is the case, it might suggest
> the w > v shift in Israel was very early.
>
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>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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