What you call obsolete I call nonexistent. As written, the word DIBER contains exactly three consonants: DBR. Writing it as DIBBER is, as I see it, a misrepresentation of the Hebrew text.
The Dagesh in MATIY, MATA, MAT, MATEM, all from MUT, follows a patax, as expected. Isaac Fried, Boston University On May 12, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote: > he masoretes felt that a "t" or "n" was lost, and denoted it by a > dagesh _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
