Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

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