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Thanks for the reply.

So are you saying that the accent is with the munach?
Also, is the mark represented by <75> a meteg or silluq?


B"H
John Steven



Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:32 PM, John Steven wrote:
>   
> > I have a question in regards to accents and trope marks.
> >
> > Here is a small list of the word type in question:
> > Gen 003:018,3    <T.AC:MI74YXA75>
> > Gen 022:007,9    <HIN.E74N./I75Y>
> > Gen 024:009,10   <WA/Y.I$.F74BA75(>
> > Gen 028:002,3    <P.AD.E74N/F75H>
> >
> > In these words you have a Munach on the 2nd to last syllable, and then a
> > Sof Pasuq(Silluq)/Meteg on the last syllable.
> > So my question is two fold:
> > 1. Since these words are not at the end of the verse, does that make the
> > last trope Meteg, or can they be Sof Pasuq(Silluq)?
> > 2. Where is the accent?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >     
>
> >From Israel Yeivin, Introduction to the Tiberian Masorah, #332 (p. 252):
> "A special case of ga(ya on an open syllable is ga(ya marked after the
> accent.  If a word with the accent on the penultimate syllable ends in an
> open syllable, and stands before a word with the accent on the first
> syllable, ga(ya may be marked on the open syllable after the accent at
> the end of the first word, such as Is 52:11 'su:ru: 'su:ru: (marking the
> first "ru:").
>
> "This ga(ya is only rarely marked.  It is most common in
> early MSS but occurs only in scattered places in them.
>
> "This ga(ya occurs more often where the vowel of the stress syllable
> of the second word is preceded by schewa, as Gen 28:2 and
> elsewhere paddena )aram, where the )a is a type of schewa (hataf
> patah)."
>
> Your first example, however, is different.  There the munax appears
> on the last syllable.  This is described in section #354 (p. 262):
> "... Ga(ya is similarly sometimes used on the last syllable of a
> word with penultimate stress if it ends with a guttural and the
> following word begins with lamed or nun ... Ga(ya may even be
> marked in a similar situation after patah "furtive", as Dt 29:19
> slx lw.
>
> Yeivin calls this "phonetic ga(ya" suggesting it has no musical
> purpose.  But I'm not sure this is correct.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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