Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Yitzhak,

Are you using a version of the Bible where KIBCU of Joel 2:6 is  
written with a double B?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 26, 2009, at 7:51 PM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Isaac Fried wrote:
> > 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.
>
> One of us is definitely subverting something.
>
> > 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.
>
> This brings up the basic question: Which came first -- your  
> theories or your
> version of the Bible? :)
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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