There are too Hiph'il forms with prefix H- which take dagesh in the first root consonant, And so, Hi+aH, he turned (Ps 116:2) HiKaH, he smote (Ex 9:25)
Have we thus to think that the dagesh is used to mark a desappeared nun, be it prefix (as in Niph'al) or root consonant (as in Hiph'il)? Regards Pere Porta (Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain) 2011/6/6 K Randolph <[email protected]> > Pere: > > Look at a standard paradigm chart for Hebrew conjugations: whenever a > niphal loses its nun prefix because of the addition of another prefix, the > first consonant of the root has a dagesh. > > The infinitive adds another prefix, therefore the niphal loses its prefixed > nun. > > Karl W. Randolph. > > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Pere Porta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Some days ago I sent to this list a post asking for the reason of the >> dagesh in the first root consonant in the Niph'al Infinitives. >> >> Realizing the list members silence and not-answering... must I think that >> nobody knows which the answer to this question is? >> >> Nobody has here an answer -at least a possible one- to this question? >> >> Regards >> >> Pere Porta >> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain) >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > -- Pere Porta _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
