Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Nir:

Is the doubling of the final consonant with a waw between them the same as
the doubling of the final consonant with a yod between them, or are these
two different patterns? Are they patterns at all?

Karl W. Randolph.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. 
<nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 06:13:55 +0200, Pere Porta wrote
> > Now, some of the words you're provinding I'm not able to see what they
> are,
> I don't find them in any of my resources. These are:
>
> pere, these words are:
>
> 1) xir+w+  : you got me, it is slang.
>
> 2) zrzyf : trickle of water, or a light rain (BH?). rarely used today. it
> may
> be connected with the semitic root *ZRB
> whence ZRBWBYT (BH?) is still used as a the beak of a vessel or nosy shape.
>
> 3) ($twt:  appears once in the OT, in job 12:5. the whiggly mekhon mamre
> translation for this phrase:
> A contemptible brand in the thought of him that is at ease,
> attests to the difficulty in understanding this word and the parallel word
> PYD
> which i thought meant "disaster/calamity".
> anyway, it seems that ($TWT is not derived from  ($T =iron. it may be
> candidate to your list of mistakes.
>
> see also:
>
> CYPWR --> CPRYR, GWPR-->GWFRIT-->GFRWR (asphalt (BH) --> sulphur (BH) -->
> match (modern)),
> P(L-->P(LWL (=trick (modern)) and many similar modern verbs with third root
> letter doubled.
> come to think of it, this doubling is pretty common in both regular and
> irregular
> verbs, in hebrew and probably other semitic languages.
>
> maybe also the city )$DWD and prophet XBQWQ. also DXL (Aram.
> fear?)-->DXLYL=scarecrow. (RBWB=mixing.
> SMRTWT=piece of cloh,rug.
>
> nir cohen
>
>