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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew list <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] segol
  • Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:13:45 -0400

In connection with the ET question, I will reiterate my conjecture that the three-point segol niqud (which is a Tiberian invention, absent in the Babylonian punctuation system) is but a notational compromise between the two-point cere (schwa?) and the one-point xiriq.
This explains the presence of the dagesh in such words as E$KAR אֶשְׁכָּרֵךְ of Ez. 27:15, punctuated with a segol under the aleph in our books, but with a xiriq in the Babylonian system.
Also, of ECAQ and ECOK of Is. 44:3, where the segol seems to mean that the suggested reading is E, but that the "original" reading was I, with a xirik, and hence the dagesh in the letter C.

Isaac Fried, Boston University


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