Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

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>  We find here and there in the biblical text some words that appear in two
>> versions: without H and with H.
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>> 1 Nouns:
>> In Gn 1:3 we have )WR, light; in Est 8:16 we have )WRFH, light.
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>> 2. Verbs:
>> In 2Sa 2:22 we have SWR, turn aside! while in Rt 4:1 we have SWRFH, same
>> meaning.
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>> They appear as being quite and mere synonyms.
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>> My questions are:
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>> 1. Are they really synonyms? Does the suffix H introduce some shade into
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>> meaning of the word that has H compared with the word that lacks H?
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> (Karl)
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>  Yes.
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>> (Pere)

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

>  I found roughly 200 such pairs among nouns.
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(Pere)

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

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>  Pere Porta
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