In my opinion the dagesh is not a part of the punctuation –––of
the NIYQUD. The dot inside the letter is, I believe, an ancient, pre-
niqud reading prop intended to remind the student or the public
reader of a vowel. The dagesh must have been entered into the Hebrew
text by some authority of the highest order. The "masorates" (who
were actually nobodies) would not have dared to disfigure the holy
text itself. The "masorates", I believe, punctuated the HB according
to the preexisting dagesh.
Otherwise, "gemination" is a fantasy.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On May 23, 2013, at 8:50 AM, John Leake wrote:
As we all know, whether there is a dagesh or not written on the
first letter of the verb in the waw-consecutive depends on whether
there's a shewa on the vowel letter. Where theres a shewa there's
no daghesh written (e.g. ויהי /wa-yehî/). Where there's no
shewa, there's a daghesh (e.g. on the yod of ויאמר /way-yômer/).
Where there's a shewa, I was under the impression that a qere
perpetuum exists. Can anyone better versed in the massorah than I
am confirm or refute this as I'm not by any means certain.
John Leake
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ان صاحب حياة هانئة لا يدونها انما
يحياها
He who has a comfortable life doesn't write about it - he lives it
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On 23 May 2013, at 13:15, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote:
Do you mean dagesh, a point INSIDE a letter? Otherwise, there is
no such thing a "gemination" in Hebrew. I am glad to see that you
correctly write wayiqtol with only one y, the way it is written in
the Hebrew text.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On May 23, 2013, at 7:14 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:
as to the gemination
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