Biblical Hebrew Forum

[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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