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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] dagesh in two root nouns with patah
  • Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:26:35 +0100

Yes, but this does not seem as easy as you describe it.

There are a lot of nouns consisting of two root consonants which take no
dagesh when adding something to their basic form:

--ben, son -------> baniym, sons (Gn 3:16)
--dam, blood ---> damiym, bloods (Ex 4:25)
--dag, fish ------> dagiym, fishes (Jb 40:31)
--yad, hand -----> yadayim, a pair of hands (Gn 34:21)
--shad, (female) breast ---> shadayim, pair of breasts (Gn 49:25)

and so on.

So, why some take dagesh while some don't? Is there a sure way to
distinguish between the two groups?

Pere Porta

2010/11/11 George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>

> The noun אף is a geminate noun, which basically means that it consists of:
> consonant – vowel – double consonant. However, one of the basic rules of
> Hebrew is that it cannot begin or end a word with a doubled consonant. So in
> its absolute state, you don’t notice its doubled second consonant because
> the dagesh forte cannot be placed. However, as soon as you add anything to
> the noun, like a plural ending or pronominal suffix, the doubled consonant
> is no longer the last item in the word, and so the doubling reappears with a
> dagesh forte.
>
> There are many such nouns in Hebrew: אף, חץ, עם, גן, אשׁ, חק, to name but a
> few.
>
> (Isaac, this is time for you to chime in with a statement about how there’s
> no such thing as doubling.)
>
>
> GEORGE ATHAS
> Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
> www.moore.edu.au
>
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Pere Porta
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(1Cor 15:32)




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