Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

>
> Dear list,
>

We all know that the vowel of the first syllable in the Qal Perfect, third
person plural,  of regular verbs (shelemim) is qamats.
And so,

--)FM:RW, they said (Ps 64:6)
--$FLXW, they sent (Jr 14:3)
and so on.

My question is: why a qamats and not a patah?

Reasons like "tradition", "custom"... are not welcome.

I'm trying to know and understand why a qamats and not a patah, mainly if we
consider that this first syllable is a closed syllable.

Would there be any trouble if patah was used here in the place of qamats?

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)


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Pere Porta