(PP)
Concerning noun "yesha', salvation (Ps 20:7) and noun "zera'", seed (Gnwhile
47:23), a student asks why the first has tsere in the first syllable
thepresence
latter has segol.
What good reason could we give him for this difference? Maybe the
of resh in "zera'" would be a sufficient reason?
(YS)
If you look at the nouns with suffixed pronouns you will see they have
different
vowels:
ישע - gives ישעו in Ps 85:10 with a hirik
זרע - gives זרעו in Gen 1:11 with a patah
The difference then is in the root form. The noun form of seed is qatl
whereas
the noun form of salvation is qitl. In the independent non- suffixed form,
the
qatl formed a seghol in the first syllable whereas the qitl formed a tsere.
In
both cases the normal second vowel of seghol became patah due to the
guttural.
(PP)
Is this a satisfaying answer, Yitzhak? We have "bigdo", his garment (2K
4:39), of beged (Lev 11:32), garment... Namely a segolated (first syllable
with segol and not with tsere) + pronoun changes segol to hiriq...
And there are other samples...
Pere Porta
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