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  • From: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • To: George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] is it logical?
  • Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 07:27:12 +0100

Hi, folks.
At comparing 'abinu' (Gn19:31) with 'abihem' (Gn 37:4)... I remark that the
first has qamats under the aleph while the latter has hatef patah.

Is there a good reason for this? Should not there be either qamats or hatef
patah in both cases?

I thought of the different position of the stress: paroxytone (abinu) versus
oxytone (abihem).... But would this be a sufficient reason for the
different vowel?


Pere Porta




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