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[b-hebrew] Side question for "By Whose God did Goliath ...?"

From: Will Parsons <wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu>
To: vdgiessen AT solcon.nl
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] Side question for "By Whose God did Goliath ...?"
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:51:39 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:38:28 +0200, "JP van de Giessen" <vdgiessen AT solcon.nl>
wrote:
> ...
> in vs 49 ’el-miṣəḥwō "in his (for)head", throwing a stone with a
> sling is very fast and I've seen a Persian reenactor slinging a
> stone through 2.5 cm wood from a distance of 50 meter.

Side question:
I'm curious - why the transcription "’el-miṣəḥwō" for אֶל-מִצְחוֹ rather
than "’el-miṣḥō" (which I would have expected)?

--
William Parsons

Re: [b-hebrew] By Whose God did Goliath Curse and Where did David Take his Head?, JP van de Giessen, 08/01/2013
- [b-hebrew] Side question for "By Whose God did Goliath ...?", Will Parsons, 08/01/2013