Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Will Parsons <wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu>]

On Mon, 2 May 2011 06:33:57 +0000, George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au> 
wrote:
> Almost. There is חֵטְא ('sin, offence'), but it employes a tsere rather than
> qamets.
 
> From: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com<mailto:pporta7 AT gmail.com>>
> Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 07:53:15 +0200
> To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>>
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] What do you think?
> 
> Are there in the entire biblical Hebrew any words consisting of three root
> letters and with the vowel pattern qamats-shewa-nothing?
> 
> I find noun $FW:) with meaning "emptiness, vanity" in Is 1:13.

It's notable that the final letter in both these words is aleph, which was
presumably silent in this context.

-- 
William Parsons