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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew list <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] two systems of dgeshim
  • Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 02:25:27 -0400

What do you say to וַיְמַלְאוּם עָפָר WA-Y-MAL-UM APAR of Gen. 21:15, or to מִלְאוּ MIL-U of Num. 32:11?
And, why is there no dagesh in the B of קִרְבוּ QIRBU of Ex. 16:9, but there is a dagesh
in the B of קִרְבּוֹ QIRBO of Ex. 12:9?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On May 13, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Pere Porta wrote:

I do not understand, Isaac, why you do not take into account the classical distinction between the dagesh forte and the dagesh lene.
You say in your post of word סִתְּמוּם SITMWM (Gn 26:15) and you try to get the reason for the dagesh into the T... without any reference to the Pi'el form of this word...
The T has dagesh because this is a Pi'el form, not because there is a hirix before it...
Compare this word with תִּפְשוּם TIP&WM (1K 20:18): its pattern is exactly the same as that of SITMWM, the dagesh in the second root consonant excepted... that being so not because of the hirix but because in 1K 20:18 we have a Qal form (Imperative: seize them!) while in Gn 26:15 we have a Pi'el form (Past: they stopped them up).

Regards from

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)
2012/5/13 Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
Well, I think it is so The dagesh, which I believe to be a pre NIKUD
reading hinter, is not needed in plene writing. Indeed, SIYM is
routinely written in full, and consequently with no dagesh, as the
יְשִׂימָם YSIYMAM of Deut. 7:15. But in 2Ki 13:7 it is
וַיְשִׂמֵם WAYSIMEM, and still with no dagesh. This means, I
think, that at the time the dgeshim were introduced into the biblical
text the word was written plene with a Y, which was lost later on.

A similar fate befell the letter W of UGAB of Ps. 150:4, and hence
the lack of a dagesh in the letter B following a qubuc.

I think that there were two systems of dgeshim that got mixed
together in our present text. In one system, a dot was placed after a
qubuc, a patax or a xiriq even in a letter not followed by a vowel,
for example, סִתְּמוּם SITMUM of Gen. 26:15 and
וַיְסַתְּמוּם WAYSATMUM of Gen. 26:18. In the other
system, a dagesh is not placed in a letter marked now by a schwa, for
instance, וַאֲמֻשְׁךָ WA-AMU$KA of Gen. 27:21.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On May 10, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Isaac Fried wrote:

> Why there is no dot in the first letter M of וַיְשִׂמֵם
> WAYSIMEM I don't know.

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