On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:14 AM, fred burlingame <[email protected]> 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. > > http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml#Num31:1-31:54 > > http://www.tms.edu/FacultyDocuments/HebrewAccentsrev.pdf > > Given the immense amount of precision the masorete scribes assigned to their > text, I find it a little surprising that they would have divided phrases > between יבא and באש . true, but that is the choice that they made. The disjunctive phrases become quite small in the MT. braxot Randall Buth > > regards, > > fred burlingame -- Randall Buth, PhD www.biblicalulpan.org [email protected] Biblical Language Center Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
