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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] initial aleph
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 22:58:11 -0400

What you call obsolete I call nonexistent.

As written, the word DIBER contains exactly three consonants: DBR. Writing it as DIBBER is, as I see it, a misrepresentation of the Hebrew text.

The Dagesh in MATIY, MATA, MAT, MATEM, all from MUT, follows a patax, as expected.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On May 12, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:

he masoretes felt that a "t" or "n" was lost, and denoted it by a dagesh





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