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  • From: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • To: George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Plural of חֵרֵשׁ (deaf)
  • Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:32:12 +0200

(George Athas)


> The word חֵרֵשׁ means 'deaf'. Its plural form is חֵרְשִׁים, rather than the
> expected חֲרֵשׁים. Does anyone have any thoughts on this morphological
> oddity?
>

(Pere Porta)

Dear George,

This is not a morphological "oddity"; this is the usual plural form of words
like "heresh". For instance, of "qereaH", bald (Lv 13:40).

The form with hatef patah in the first syllable and tsere in the second one
is ONLY for adjective "aher", other (look at Gn 23:13) and for words having
(in the singular absolute) qamats in their first syllable plus tsere in
their second one and whose first root consonant is guttural: haber, friend
(Jd 20:11), arel, uncircumcised (Jr 9:25), ayef, tired (Jd 8:4)

Kind regards from

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)

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