On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:14 AM, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Randall:
>
> Thanks for your incisive comments.
>
> The punctuation beneath יבא in לא יבא באש (numbers 31:23) appears to
> include a conjunctive "merkha" rather than a disjunctive "tiphchah" (as that
> latter mark appears under באש ). I note however, that the "merkha"
> under יבא appears to enclose an additional "dot." I don't know the meaning
> of the dot.
The whole accent, with the dot, is called tvir, a minor disjunctive.