pere sha'al > We have in Dt 6:2 MCWK, *(male) who commands you*. The waw has vowel segol.
And we have in Dt 6:6 exactly the same word but..... with a shewa in the place of segol. No pause, here. Is there any difference between these two pointing ways? Is there any good reason for the different pointing? > Good question. With a simple answer. Actually, there IS a pausal difference. The word in Dt 6.2 is accented with segolta. And the accented syllable is the vav with segol. Segolta is a high level disjunctive and it is written after the word, not on the accented syllable. The same word in 6.6 is a contextual form with the accent on the final syllable and the vowel with vav being reduced to shva. Randall Buth -- Randall Buth, PhD www.biblicallanguagecenter.com Biblical Language Center Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
