Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Hamuel <davidhamuel AT sbcglobal.net>]

> The basic rule of the Article HE is : He + patach + dagesh hazak; each rule 
> has an exception to the rule;  for example,  before stressed ayin + kamats 
> the he gets kamats instead of patach.

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> That was my point - that the presence of the dagesh in the beginning of 
the base morpheme doesn't always mean that the prefix HE is an article -


John,

You misunderstood. I didn't say that he + kamats isn't the article he. Do you 
have any grammar book? 



--David Hamuel