Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Isaac Fried wrote:
>> Yitzhak,
>>
>> My school bible has ha$$omea( with only one shin. Is a dot in a Hebrew
>> letter a cue for stuttering?
>
> It is a cue to read the texts written by the people who wrote the dot in the
> first place as to what they meant when they wrote the dots.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir

I want to rephrase:  The people who wrote the dot also wrote texts describing
what the dots mean for pronunciation.  If you see a dot, it is a cue to read
those texts.

Yitzhak Sapir