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  • From: "Donald R. Vance, Ph.D." <donaldrvance AT mac.com>
  • To: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] why?
  • Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:52:23 -0500

Pere:

The anaptyctic seghôl exerted such pressure that it entirely replaced the a in the a-class segholates (e.g., *málek --> mélek) and even the i in a few i-class segholates (e.g., *qíber --> *qéber), but not the o of the u-class segholates. (In the course of the development of Hebrew, the u became o in the u-class segholates, *qúde$ --> *qóde$.) Finally, since it is a characteristic of Biblical Hebrew that the vowel in the accented syllable of nouns is normally lengthened, the i of the i-class segholates became ê (i.e., sêrê) and the o of the u- class segholates became ô (i.e., hôlem), but, the accented seghôl of the a-class segholates (and of the i-class segholates that had one) was not lengthened.





Donald R. Vance, Ph.D.
Professor of Biblical Languages and Literature
Oral Roberts University
dvance AT oru.edu
donaldrvance AT mac.com


On Jul 2, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Pere Porta wrote:

(PP)

Concerning noun "yesha', salvation (Ps 20:7) and noun "zera'", seed (Gn
47:23), a student asks why the first has tsere in the first syllable
while
the
latter has segol.

What good reason could we give him for this difference? Maybe the
presence
of resh in "zera'" would be a sufficient reason?

(YS)
If you look at the nouns with suffixed pronouns you will see they have
different
vowels:

ישע - gives ישעו in Ps 85:10 with a hirik
זרע - gives זרעו in Gen 1:11 with a patah

The difference then is in the root form. The noun form of seed is qatl
whereas
the noun form of salvation is qitl. In the independent non- suffixed form,
the
qatl formed a seghol in the first syllable whereas the qitl formed a tsere.
In
both cases the normal second vowel of seghol became patah due to the
guttural.

(PP)

Is this a satisfaying answer, Yitzhak? We have "bigdo", his garment (2K
4:39), of beged (Lev 11:32), garment... Namely a segolated (first syllable
with segol and not with tsere) + pronoun changes segol to hiriq...
And there are other samples...

Pere Porta



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