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[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

If so, is there a guide, a backgroung guiding us onto when or in which
conditions there is dagesh and when or under which conditions there is no
dagesh?

Pere Porta

2011/5/23 George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>

> Pere, you've hit upon the enigmatic 'QeNeMLuY' letters. The consonants ק נ
> מ ל ו י often reject a dagesh forte when they would normally take one.
>
>
> GEORGE ATHAS
> Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
> www.moore.edu.au
>
>
> From: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com<mailto:pporta7 AT gmail.com>>
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 07:45:38 +0200
> To: George Athas <george.athas AT moore.edu.au<mailto:
> george.athas AT moore.edu.au>>
> Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >>
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Why?
>
> Dear b-hebrew listers,
>
> We know that the dagesh is, between others, a feature of the Piel
> conjugation.
> And so,
>
> DIBARTY, I spoke (Js 1:3)
> $ILAXTY, I sent away (Mal 2:2)
>
> We know too that gutturals take no dagesh even if they should take one as
> it is the case of the Piel.
>
> And so
>
> NIXA$TY, I divined  (Gn 30:27)
> WRIXAMTY, and I will have compassion (lit. I had compassion) (Ex 33:19)
>
> We would say the same for the Piel Imperative as in DABRY, speak (you,
> female)! we find in Jdg 5:12.
>
> But some Piel forms are also found whit NO dagesh when one would expect
> one. And so
>
> HALLW, praise (you, males)! (Ps 117:1)
> HALLY, praise (you, female)! (Ps 146:1)
>
> Compare also L$ALXW, to send him away (Ex 4:23) (dagesh) with LBAQ$W, to
> seek him (1S 27:4) (no dagesh)...
>
> So I wonder if these are scribal errors or... maybe there are some verbs
> which even in the Piel take no dagesh where they should take one.
> Maybe there is a reason for that lack of dagesh?
>
> Regards
>
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
>
>
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