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Sorry if this is a repeated email. I
don’t understand why my emails don’t seem to be getting through.
Yigal, can you please help? Sometimes my messages are not getting
through… Shalom! The word K.V.H.-LI (usually pronounced KAVAH-LI) appears
twice – in Numbers 22:11 and 2:17. Looking at the facsimile copy of the LC, I see that BEIT has
a DAGESH the first time this word is mentioned (Numbers 22:11) but not the
second time. There is also a Raphe over the BEIT, which makes it a peculiar
situation, as a letter cannot have both a Dagesh and a Raphe at the same time. The BHS, BHL, the on-line Westminster LC, and all the Tanakh
editions show both time BEIT without Dagesh. My question: Does anyone know if what I see in the facsimile copy of the
LC is real – is it a real dot inside the BEIT or is it some spec to which
no one (but me?) is paying attention? If it’s a real dot, it’s an interesting
situation because this is a “strange” word that may be more
properly KOBAH (with a Kamatz Katan) than KAVAH. (Yes, I know that the
Masoretes used the same vowel sound for each Kamatz and that the classification
into K Gadol and K Katan are later…). Thank you in advance for responding. Bruryah (Yodan) |
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