Hi Isaac You wrote: > You may be wrong in thinking that different "points" represent different > readings. > Spoken Hebrew does not distinguish between a segol and a cere, and rightly so. But this depends on your pronunciation: AFAIK the Azkenazi pronunciation do make a distinction between the two. So, this might reflect the "original" pronunciation of the time when the nikkud was developed.
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