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  • From: Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>
  • To: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] the little things
  • Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:28:36 -0700

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:14 AM, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Randall:
>
> Thanks for your incisive comments.
>
> The punctuation beneath יבא in לא יבא באש  (numbers 31:23) appears to
> include a conjunctive "merkha" rather than a disjunctive "tiphchah" (as that
> latter mark appears under באש ). I note however, that the "merkha"
> under יבא appears to enclose an additional "dot." I don't know the meaning
> of the dot.

The whole accent, with the dot, is called tvir, a minor disjunctive.


>
> http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml#Num31:1-31:54
>
> http://www.tms.edu/FacultyDocuments/HebrewAccentsrev.pdf
>
> Given the immense amount of precision the masorete scribes assigned to their
> text, I find it a little surprising that they would have divided phrases
> between יבא and באש .

true, but that is the choice that they made. The disjunctive phrases
become quite small in the MT.

braxot
Randall Buth


>
> regards,
>
> fred burlingame

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