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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Others?
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 19:50:46 -0400

I am not sure how the present day $IKBAH, [$IXVAH] שכבה 'layer, stratum', came to be. In the bible (Ex. 16:13) it is found only in SMIYKUT as: $IKB-AT HA-TAL שִׁכְבַת הַטַּל 'lying dew', implying that the single is possibly $KABAH.
I don't think that the Imperative form $IKBAH of Gn 39:7 "became" the noun for the 'layer' of today.
The imperative $IKBAH, as well as the corresponding noun, lacks a dagesh in the B, and I, therefore, suspect it to be a latter form preferred by the NAQDANIYM.
All other nouns of the same MI$QAL have a dagesh, as expected, to wit: XEMDAH, XERPAH, KISBAH, LI$KAH, NIQPAH, NI$KAH, EMDAH, [PITDAH], PISGAH, PIRDAH, PI$TAH, RIKBAH, RICPAH.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On May 24, 2011, at 1:51 AM, Pere Porta wrote:

We have in Gn 39:7 an Imperative form, $IKBAH, lie down (you, male)! (an alternative to $:KAB found in 2Sa 13:5)
In today Hebrew we find the common noun $IKBAH, layer, social stratum.

Apparently, an old Imperative form has become a feminine common noun today.

I'm looking for other analogous cases: do you know of some others?

Regards

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Pere Porta

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