Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

It is a vowel that fills an unaccented, open syllable.

IPA (Spanish)    i,   e,   a,   o,   u
could be long or short.
The long set was named
Hiriq(yud), tsere, qamats, Holem, and shuruq.

This is the QimHi, Sefardic, and pre-Tiverian system.

[The five developed from a three vowel system,
long and short, i, a, u, plus *ay, and *aw.]

Randall Buth

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Isaac Fried<if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
> 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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