Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>]

Yes, that's correct, Pere. The dagesh forte in those verbs, and the dagesh 
forte in the Niphal Yiqtol forms, indicates a missing nun.


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, 6 Jun 2011 10:03:40 +0200
To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com<mailto:kwrandolph AT gmail.com>>
Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Nobody knows?

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)