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I fully understood what he meant! :)
That graphically they were exact except for the dagesh. The words having 
different meanings is implied from the context of my question. If they 
meant the same thing then he wouldn't have posted it as it wouldn't 
apply to my question.

I'm so grateful that my question was finally understood and has been 
answered.
Thanks again David!

If anyone has more like that David has already posted (Yitzhak you said 
you know of a bunch of these) the please flood me with them. :)


B"H
John Steven

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.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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