Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

If you mean MA-XMAD-IY, then the dagesh in the D is after a patax as  
expected. In the word MA-RBAD-IYM ( in my opinion a variant of MA- 
RBAC-IYM) the D is with a dagesh after a patax, as expected, but the  
lack of a dagesh "lene" in the B is puzzling. I think that the lack  
of a dagesh implies that the NAKDANIYM deviated here from the reading  
of the earlier DAG$ANIYM.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On May 11, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Pere Porta wrote:

> There are nine MA- nouns which in their declension take a dagesh  
> forte in
> the last consonant of the stem.
> They are:
>
> MXMD, desire
> MXMC, xxx
> MXCB, hewing
> MX$K, dark place -- Is 42:16
> M+(M, savoury food
> MMTQ, a sweet thing
> MN(M, delicacy
> MRBD, coverlet
> M$)B, a drawing place of water
>
> Which is the reason for this dagesh?
>
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
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