I received the following from a contact in Israel:
Vav Holam may convey two meanings, either just a vowel or a consonant Vav
with the vowel Holam.
Some typographers differentiate these two meaning, many do not. I don't now
if there is any Masoretic basis for the distinction or if it is late, and
whether it is consistently used in those texts that do make the distinction.
I don't know either. Can someone answer this? There is a typographical distinction in the printed BHS (and an encoding distinction in the Michigan-Claremont-Westminster text. But is there actually a distinction in original MSS like L and Aleppo?
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Peter Kirk
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http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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