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[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

Yes.
Now, what do you think about the first "n" in "nitnah" (Num 14:4):

--is it a prefix (for "anu")
--or is it the root letter "n" of "natan"?

Regards

Pere Porta

2011/12/6 Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>

> It is an example of two different words of the same root and the same "vowel
> sequence".
>
>  Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
>
>   On Dec 5, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Pere Porta wrote:
>
>  Isaac,
> What do you exactly mean by this remark of yours?
>
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)
>
> 2011/12/5 Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
>
>>  Remark that NITNAH נִתְּנָה of Nu 14:4 contains the same "vowel
>> sequence" (dagesh and all) as NITNAH of Gen.38:14.
>>
>> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>>
>>   Remark, Noam,  that the vowel sequence of this word "heyu" in Num
>> 16:16 is
>> the same as that of verb (enu, answer (you, males)! found in Num 21:17.
>> Also remark that the usual vowel pattern for the Imperative of this kind
>> of
>> verbs (called lamed-yod) is with hatef-patah in the first root consonant:
>> see in Jdg 9:15; Js 10:4; Zc 7:9...) and not with hatef-segol as in Num
>> 16:16.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pere Porta
>> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)
>>
>>
>>
>>  Fact: Num 16.16 heyu היו 'be ye' is not the qatal.
>> the qatal would have been heyiytem 'you were' הייתם.
>>
>>
>> I'm sorry, I'm missing somethimg - it seems to me both היו and הייתם are
>> qatal. What is היו if not qatal?
>>
>> Noam Eitan,
>> Brooklyn, NY
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