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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Some questions about Genesis 22
  • Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:47:17 -0400

What is a "long vowel"?

Isaac Fried
Boston University

On Jul 1, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Randall Buth wrote:

Dear people,

1) In verse three we have the word אֶת-חֲמֹרוֹ. Why does the waw-cholem
gets replaced with a cholem?

Spelling in the First Temple had a tendency to only use one long vowel marking
with a vav, yud, or he. When Hamor 'donkey' is alone it can take a holem-vav,
but when it has a suffix, they tended to write the suffix and then they didn't
write any more vowels with helping consonants.


2) In verse 5 of Genesis 22 we have the cohortatives נֵלְכָה and
וְנָשׁוּבָה. I am not sure if וְנִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה is one, it has a segol, but it
is surrounded by other cohortatives. Who can clarify this?

Yes, lamed-yud verbs do not mark the volitional -a ending, so in
context the verb ve-nishtaHave is volitional/cohortative


I have Joüon/Muraoka (English version) and J.M. Lettinga (Dutch grammar),
so you can reference those if you want.

Kind regards,

Michiel Borkent


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