On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Steve Miller <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net> wrote: > In Ps 22:17, if the correct reading is karu according to the 2 DSS witnesses > + LXX, then is it possible to explain the extra aleph in the MT as a > "prosthetic aleph"? > > > > The Pocket Dictionary for the Study of Biblical Hebrew by Todd J. Murphy > defines a prosthesis as > > "The addition of a phoneme (usually a vowel) in BH and the Semitic languages > to a word-initial consonant cluster in order to smooth pronunciation, which > by itself tends to run contrary to the regular rules of Semitic > pronunciation (e.g., BH zroa, "arm", becomes ezroa or zeroa). Prosthetic > vowels compensate for a consonant cluster at the beginning of a word, and > anaptyctic vowels compensate for consonant clusters at the end of a word. > See also prosthetic aleph." > > Would the words surrounding kari in Ps 22:17 in MT qualify as a "consonant > cluster"? > No, Steve. There's no need for the aleph to break anything here. Notice that the vowel sound "a" already exists in the verb form ××¨× KRW "they dug out." The aleph in this case isn't a phoneme at all, since it adds nothing that wasn't already present in the verb itself. It would serve only as a vowel letter. We do find instances of aleph as a vowel letter in middle-weak verbs. We could find ×§××× instead of ×§××, for example. But I don't know of any instances of third-heh verbs taking such an aleph as a mater lectionis, as it is suggested here. Regards, Jason Hare Rehovot, Israel _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
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