Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

In my opinion the dagesh is not a part of the punctuation –––of the NIYQUD. The dot inside the letter is, I believe, an ancient, pre-niqud reading prop intended to remind the student or the public reader of a vowel. The dagesh must have been entered into the Hebrew text by some authority of the highest order. The "masorates" (who were actually nobodies)  would not have dared to disfigure the holy text itself. The "masorates", I believe, punctuated the HB according to the preexisting dagesh.

Otherwise, "gemination" is a fantasy.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

  

On May 23, 2013, at 8:50 AM, John Leake wrote:

As we all know, whether there is a dagesh or not written on the first letter of the verb in the waw-consecutive depends on whether there's a shewa on the vowel letter. Where theres a shewa there's no daghesh written (e.g. ויהי /wa-yehî/). Where there's no shewa, there's a daghesh (e.g. on the yod of ויאמר /way-yômer/).

 Where there's a shewa, I was under the impression that a qere perpetuum exists. Can anyone better versed in the massorah than I am confirm or refute this as I'm not by any means certain.

John Leake

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ان صاحب حياة هانئة لا يدونها انما يحياها

He who has a comfortable life doesn't write about it - he lives it

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On 23 May 2013, at 13:15, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

Do you mean dagesh, a point INSIDE a letter? Otherwise, there is no such thing a "gemination" in Hebrew. I am glad to see that you correctly write wayiqtol with only one y, the way it is written in the Hebrew text.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

 

On May 23, 2013, at 7:14 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:

as to the gemination

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