Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Pere:

I don’t have a pointed text with me, so I can’t do the research that I
mention now.

Check to see if there are patterns depending on the following consonant?
Are the majority of those that start with Ma- connected with certain
following consonants, that are different from those starting with Me-, and
so forth? That maybe your answer.

You can ignore theories based on etymologies, as there are no evidences to
back them up. I ignore them.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> in my struggle with Hebrew patterns I find a curious phenomenon or fact
> with feminine nouns that consist of three root letters to which M- has been
> preffixed (put before) and suffix -H has been added at their end.
> And so,
>
> -MAMLFKFH, kingdom (2Ch 9:19) -- מַמְלָכָה
> -MEM$FLFH, rule, government (Mic 4:8) -- מֶמְשָׁלָה
>
> -MILXFMFH, battle, war (Gn 14:2) -- מִלְחָמָה
>
> I'm inquiring for the reason for this difference in the vowel of the
> prefix: why A (patah) in the first, E (segol) in the second and I (hiriq)
> in the third, the rest of the structure being exactly the same for all
> three?
> Is it a *custom* matter? Is there some good reason for this different
> vowels? Does this different vowel imply some important differences in the
> inner structure of the pattern and thus in the meaning of the resulting
> word?
>
> Kind regards from
> --
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)
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