Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

In the on-line mechon-mamre book (http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/t/ 
t08b07.htm) it is written
BILBABKA בִּלְבָבְךָ with a qamets under the second B.

The fact that the second B lacks an inner dot suggests to me that the  
xiriq under the first, pre-positioned, B is not "original", but is  
rather an override by the NAQDANIYM of an earlier different reading  
tradition.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 20, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Charles Grebe wrote:

> חברים
>
> I have a question about the word בלבבך in 2 Samuel 7:3. Is the  
> qamets there a long "a" qamets or the short "o" qamets-hatuph? I  
> would assume it is pronounced with the long "a" qamets but it seems  
> to violate the basic rule that I usually use to distinguish qamets  
> from qamets-hatuph, namely that if this vowel symbol occurs in an  
> unaccented closed syllable then it is a qamets-hatuph?
>
> So my question is which one is it? If it is a qamets, then is the  
> above rule violated or is there something else going on here?
>
> thanks,
>
> Charles Grebe
> Director of Continuing and Distance Education
> Briercrest College and Seminary
> Caronport, SK
>
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