If so, is there a guide, a backgroung guiding us onto when or in which conditions there is dagesh and when or under which conditions there is no dagesh?
Pere Porta 2011/5/23 George Athas <[email protected]> > Pere, you've hit upon the enigmatic 'QeNeMLuY' letters. The consonants ק נ > מ ל ו י often reject a dagesh forte when they would normally take one. > > > GEORGE ATHAS > Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia) > www.moore.edu.au > > > From: Pere Porta <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 07:45:38 +0200 > To: George Athas <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> > Cc: B-Hebrew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected] > >> > Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Why? > > Dear b-hebrew listers, > > We know that the dagesh is, between others, a feature of the Piel > conjugation. > And so, > > DIBARTY, I spoke (Js 1:3) > $ILAXTY, I sent away (Mal 2:2) > > We know too that gutturals take no dagesh even if they should take one as > it is the case of the Piel. > > And so > > NIXA$TY, I divined (Gn 30:27) > WRIXAMTY, and I will have compassion (lit. I had compassion) (Ex 33:19) > > We would say the same for the Piel Imperative as in DABRY, speak (you, > female)! we find in Jdg 5:12. > > But some Piel forms are also found whit NO dagesh when one would expect > one. And so > > HALLW, praise (you, males)! (Ps 117:1) > HALLY, praise (you, female)! (Ps 146:1) > > Compare also L$ALXW, to send him away (Ex 4:23) (dagesh) with LBAQ$W, to > seek him (1S 27:4) (no dagesh)... > > So I wonder if these are scribal errors or... maybe there are some verbs > which even in the Piel take no dagesh where they should take one. > Maybe there is a reason for that lack of dagesh? > > Regards > > Pere Porta > (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) > > > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > > > > -- > Pere Porta > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > -- Pere Porta _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
