On Mon, 2 May 2011 06:33:57 +0000, George Athas <[email protected]> wrote: > Almost. There is חֵטְא ('sin, offence'), but it employes a tsere rather than > qamets. > From: Pere Porta <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 07:53:15 +0200 > To: B-Hebrew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] What do you think? > > Are there in the entire biblical Hebrew any words consisting of three root > letters and with the vowel pattern qamats-shewa-nothing? > > I find noun $FW:) with meaning "emptiness, vanity" in Is 1:13.
It's notable that the final letter in both these words is aleph, which was presumably silent in this context. -- William Parsons _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
