To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Masoretic Marking in Deut 1:36
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:52:19 -0500
In the facsimile, the accent is illegible, even with a powerful glass. The
letters
are squeezed on this line, and the base material appear to be slightly
damaged/worn at this spot. The marks in the facsimile more closely
resemble segolta than zaqef, but segolta is postpositive, whereas this mark
is clearly above the initial yod.
I have no suggestion for the textual basis of the mark in BHS, but it does not
seem to reflect a mark in the original, according to the facsimile.
Mp says that this word+accent combination occurs three times, and,
according to Weil's Masorah Magna #2597 (where he identifies the accent as
zaqef gadol), the other occurrences are Jr 25.8 and Ek 31.10, both of which
are Ya(aN with regular zaqef gadol (i.e., with the vertical stroke to the
left).
Best wishes,
Fred
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