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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Hebrew Forum <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] A question for Isaac Fried
  • Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:51:42 -0400

Indeed, the fact of the matter is that a dagesh "forte" is routinely found ("as expected") following a patax, a xiriq, and a qubuc (occasionally also a segol), but not:
1. if the following letter is a "guttural"
2. if the following letter is marked by a schwa
3. a dagesh "forte" is also missing (in my opinion superfluous) in "full" or plene writhing, thus CIPOR (sans yod), 'bird' is with a dagesh in the letter P, but KIYTOR (with a yod), 'steam, vapor', is with no dagesgh

If the letter following a patax, a xiriq, or a qubuc is marked by a schwa, then the dagesh "moves" forward and nestles itself in the next letter. Such a "postponed" dagesh we term "lene". It is conceivable that the dagesh "lene" used to appear, as the dagesh "forte" does, in most letters, but now we find it only in the BGDKPT letters, for which it changes the reading.

You are right in saying that there are many instances of a letter marked by schwa, yet still with a dagesh in it. Or, instances of a missing dagesh "lene". In my opinion it has all to do with the fact that the dagesh is an earlier reading prop, and is not part of the nikud.

If dagesh appears in a letter marked by a schwa, then no second "lene" dagesh is needed. A dagesh in a letter marked by a schwa is routine after HA- and MI-. Notice: MIDBAR, 'desert, saying', with no dagesh in the D, but a dagesh in the B (causing us to read it as an English B), yet MIDVAR, 'from DVAR', as in Ex. 23:7, with (with!) a dagesh in the D, but with no dagesh in the the letter Beth, causing us to read it is a the English V.

I see no dagesh in SL)Y סַלְעִי 'my rock', of 2S 22:2, nor in MQLY מַקְלִי 'my rod', of Zc 11:10 and 11:14. See here

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/t/t0.htm

In Hos. 7:5 is see MALKENU with a dagesh in the letter K, yet in Hos. 7:7 it is the notorious MALKEYHEM with no dagesh in the letter K. Farther, in Hos. 7:8 I see UGA עֻגָה 'cake', with a qubuc under the letter Ayin, but with no dagesh in the letter G "as expected". Today we write עוּגה in full.

It is indeed as you say: L$LXNW לְשַׁלְּחֵנוּ 'to send us away', of Ex 13:15, and &MXNW שַׂמְּחֵנוּ 'gladden us', of Ps 90:15 with a dagesh in the letters L, and M, respectively.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On May 17, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Pere Porta wrote:

To our friend Isaac Fried.

You often claim that after a patah one finds dagesh "*as expected*" (in your
words).
I see that many words having patah are, indeed, followed by dagesh.
And so,

-L$LXNW, to send us away (Ex 13:15)
-&MXNW, (you, male) gladden us! (Ps 90:15)
and many other.

But I remark too that often there is no dagesh after patah (and I know that
gutturals aren't dageshed)
And so

-MLKNW, our king (Hos 7:5)
-SL)Y, my rock (2S 22:2)
-MQLY, my rod (Zc 11:10)
and many other.

Could you clarify your position hereon?

1. When, under which conditions a dagesh comes in the letter that is after a
patah?
2. Are there some exceptions to the "rule" you may state?
3. If there are some exceptions: which these are?

Kind regards from

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)




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