Dear Peter,
The Psalm text of Origen's Hexapla is found in Mercati, G (1958 and 1965) "Psalterii Hexapli Reliqviae". A detailed study of the vowels used by Origen is found in Brönno, E. (1943) "Studien über hebräische Morphologie and Vokalismus" Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes xxvii.
Brönno lists 99 examples of gemination in the second column, and he says that after the article the following consonant is always geminated when that is possible (p. 204). ...
... However, there is no example of gemination in any of the WAYYIQTOLs and WEYIQTOLs.
The WEYIQTOL of Psalm 18:47 is written as OUIAROUM and the WAYYIQTOL of 18:48 as OUIEDABBER (note the gemination of the second radical). This means that the two basic differences between WAYYIQTOL and WEYIQTOL (gemination and patah) either did not exist in Origen's Vorlage, or he ignored them.
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