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  • From: Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>
  • To: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] [B-hebrew] Genesis 4:7 Halo
  • Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:45:16 +0100

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:05:04AM -0800, Uri Hurwitz wrote:
>   As mentioned, there is different pointing under the 'he'.
>
>   Under the interrogative 'he' is a 'hataf patah' as in the examples noted
> in Genesis 4:7 or Job 10 etc.
>
>   The pointing under the article 'he' is a 'patah'.
>
>   Historically before the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible was written
> down, the proto-Semitic article must have had two letters in Hebrew just as
> the Arabic retains two letters in the article to the present day.
> Eventually, the second letter of the article assimilated with the first
> letter of the noun which it modified. A trace of this assimilation was
> preserved in the pronounciation still heard by the Masoretes and thus the
> 'dagesh' in the letter following the 'he'. Of course, if the first letter
> of the Hebrew word is a gutteral different pronounciation occurs.

<provocation>
And now, tell me, why there is no dagesh with the interrogative particle ;-)
</provocation>

(Yes, I'm talking about the fact that the arabic interrogative particle
is "hal", هل ...)

:=P

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