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  • From: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • To: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Can't find the root and meaning in the lexicon, any help?
  • Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:56:04 +0200

When dealing with Hebrew roots the custom (or, better, the "rule") is to write them with quotation marks (namely  ") before the last letter for the sake of distinguishing a word which is nothing but a root from a current word...
בחן is not exactly the same thing as בח"ן.
 
Greetings,
 
Pere Porta

2013/9/2 Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
What is so better, is " a part of the Hebrew aleph-bet?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Sep 2, 2013, at 12:30 AM, Pere Porta wrote:

 the root is בחן or, even better, בח"ן




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Pere Porta



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