Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

There are too Hiph'il forms with prefix H- which take dagesh in the first
root consonant,
And so,
Hi+aH, he turned (Ps 116:2)
HiKaH, he smote (Ex 9:25)

Have we thus to think that the dagesh is used to mark a desappeared nun, be
it prefix (as in Niph'al) or root consonant (as in Hiph'il)?

Regards

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)

2011/6/6 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>

> Pere:
>
> Look at a standard paradigm chart for Hebrew conjugations: whenever a
> niphal loses its nun prefix because of the addition of another prefix, the
> first consonant of the root has a dagesh.
>
> The infinitive adds another prefix, therefore the niphal loses its prefixed
> nun.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Some days ago I sent to this list a post asking for the reason of the
>> dagesh in the first root consonant in the Niph'al Infinitives.
>>
>> Realizing the list members silence and not-answering...  must I think that
>> nobody knows which the answer to this question is?
>>
>> Nobody has here an answer   -at least a possible one-  to this question?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Pere Porta
>> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)
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