Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Pere:

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

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>   (Pere)
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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.
>>>
>>> They appear as being quite and mere synonyms.
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>>> (Pere)
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> Please, Karl, give me/us three or four samples (from these two hundred you
> found)
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>>>  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.