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  • From: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • To: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] What does H add?
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 06:11:52 +0100

Hi, friends.
We find here and there in the biblical text some words that appear in two
versions: without H and with H.

1 Nouns:
In Gn 1:3 we have )WR, light; in Est 8:16 we have )WRFH, light.

2. Verbs:
In 2Sa 2:22 we have SWR, turn aside! while in Rt 4:1 we have SWRFH, same
meaning.

They appear as being quite and mere synonyms.

My questions are:

1. Are they really synonyms? Does the suffix H introduce some shade into the
meaning of the word that has H compared with the word that lacks H?

2. Do you know of other similar pairs, either nouns or verbs?

3. Would there be a good reason for these variants? I mean: maybe some
evolution of the language (older writings like Genesis versus newer writings
like Esther or 2Samuel versus Ruth) would explain this difference?


What do you think about this?


--
Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)




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