Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ishinan" <ishinan AT comcast.net>]

Because of plain format, the diacritical mark  "v" placed on the letter s 
for (sh) failed to appear in my last post.  Hence, the following paragraph 
should read as follows:

"Note here in the case of the Arabic  qTT,  instead of writing the emphatic 
letter T twice, as in English, Arabic places a w-shaped sign called shaddah, 
above it; an equivalent in Hebrew would be dagesh hazaq."

Sorry for the confusion.

Ishinan Ishibashi