Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yodan" <yodan AT yodanco.com>]

Yes! A single “quotation mark” (garshayim) is used before the last letter in acronyms, and a root is an acronym, here standing for Beit-Heit-Nun.

 

Braryah Tashah

 

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From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Pere Porta
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 10:56 PM
To: Isaac Fried
Cc: B-Hebrew Hebrew
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Can't find the root and meaning in the lexicon,any help?

 

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