>I'm looking for some kind of systematization for those words that here and there in the biblical text appear having a daguesh in their first letter without, apparently, any good reason for it.
And so: +WB -------- Ez 17:8 SWP ------- Ex 10:19 &)R --------- Ex 12:15 M(+ --------- Jb 24:24 M(+ --------- Hos 8:10 $M( ---------- Ez 44:5 and many others. Would it be possible to systematize this in some way? Does this dagesh happen whenever the preceding word ends in heh? Does this dagesh happen whenever the preceding word ends in waw? Does this dagesh happen whenever the preceding word ends in a vowel? Can I find some explanation of this phenomenon in the common Hebrew grammars? Other thoughts? Regards from Pere Porta (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) > You are describing various kinds of 'euphonic dagesh'. See a reference grammar like Jouon-Muraoka 18h-18j. These items are technically 'sub-phonemic', meaning that they do not distinguish meaning. 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
