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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Phonetics of Ayin
  • Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:35:07 -0700

Jim:

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:17 AM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:
>

>
> What’s going on here?  The Biblical authors do not seem to be making a
> concerted effort to use the ideal spelling of Tyre, which presumably should
> be
> CWR, not CR.
>
> Jim Stinehart
> Evanston, Illinois

What’s going on is that the “ideal spelling” is a modern invention,
not a Biblical pattern. The materes lexionis were very often left out
of written Biblical Hebrew in a lot of words, not just this name,
hence there is nothing special to be inferred from their absence in
these examples that you cite.

Karl W. Randolph.




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