On 5/3/04 12:42 PM, "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com> wrote:
> Does Hebrew have reduplicated patterns? Greek
>> of course has lots of reduplication but I wasn't aware that it was a common
>> characteristic of Hebrew. Is it???
>
> HH: Yes, reduplication is a feature of Hebrew. If you have GKC, check
> at 55d-g for verbs (of course) and 84b (k-p) for nouns.
Yes GKC 84b(n) and Waltke/O'Conner 5.2.h and 5.5. But reading
Waltke/O'Conner, I see that the repetition of a single consonant is called
reduplication. If that is the case the reduplication is common but I was not
in the habit of thinking of single consonant repetition as reduplication.
Why not? Who knows? How common is double consonant reduplication like the
form lxprprym found in 1QIsa(a)?