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  • From: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] What does H add?
  • Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 05:40:39 +0100

> (Pere)
>
>

> 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?
>>
>
> (Karl)
>


> Yes.
>
>>
>> (Pere)

> 2. Do you know of other similar pairs, either nouns or verbs?
>>
>
> (Karl)

> I found roughly 200 such pairs among nouns.
>

(Pere)

Please, Karl, give me/us three or four samples (from these two hundred you
found)

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> Pere Porta
>> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
>>
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