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  • From: "Charles Grebe" <cgrebe AT briercrest.ca>
  • To: "Michiel Borkent" <michielborkent AT gmail.com>, "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] pronunciation of waw-consecutive of hyh
  • Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:50:08 -0600

Michiel,

For more explanation of what George is referring to below, see the bottom of
page 82 and most of page 83 in "A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew" by Paul Joüon,
T. Muraoka.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Zhjd_m5hIeIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=muraoka+grammar+biblical+hebrew#PPA83,M1


The simple English description of this is that the "coal mine" letters
sometimes drop their dagesh forte if they are followed by a shewa. "Coal
mine" is a mnemonic for the following letters Qoph, Waw, Lamed, Mem, Yod, and
Num. Here's a quick explanation of the rule and mnemonic on my web site.

http://www.animatedhebrew.com/lectures/index.html
Scroll down to Chapter 6 - "Coal Mine" letters.

Shalom,
Charles Grebe
Briercrest Distance Learning
Caronport, SK, Canada

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From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of George Athas


Now to your question. It is often the case that when a yodh carries a shewa,
it resists gemination - that is, it is frequently not doubled.








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