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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: Pere Porta <pporta7 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 04:55:19 -0800

Pere:

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

>
> (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.
>>>
>>> They appear as being quite and mere synonyms.
>>>
>>>
>>> (Pere)
>
> Please, Karl, give me/us three or four samples (from these two hundred you
> found)
>
>>
>>> From a previous message, I found a few patterns:

Without a final heh — with a final heh
Concrete (object) — abstraction

מליץ spokesman ⇒ translator, מליצה announcement


Specific (individual) — generality (group)


ארח traveller,, ארחה caravan, a group travelling together

Adjective — abstract noun


עיף exhausted, עיפה exhaustion

Some pairs don’t follow a pattern.

בקע, בקעה

Not analysed yet

חק, חקה, which, if these follow any pattern, I suspect that חק refers to
individual laws, while חקה refers to groups of laws, such as the group
referring to the sabbath.

Karl W. Randolph.




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