To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Any meaning to the Dagesh?
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:51:18 +0000
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Isaac Fried wrote:
> Yitzhak,
>
> By writing "qibbacu" you subvert the hebrew text. Apart from the A vowel
> that I don't see there, it is written with only one B.
One of us is definitely subverting something.
> The QINIYM ( קִנִּים ) of Gn 6:14 is written in QTIB XASER, without a yod,
> and the dagesh is appropriately expected after the XIRIQ. The doubling of N
> is your own invention. The QIYNIYM ( קִינִים ) of Ez 2:10 is written in
> QTIB MALE), with a yod, and appropriately without a dagesh.
This brings up the basic question: Which came first -- your theories or your
version of the Bible? :)
Yitzhak Sapir
Re: [b-hebrew] Any meaning to the Dagesh?
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