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Grammar

Hebrew Verbs With Gutturals

Verbs which have a guttural for one of the three radicals differ in their inflexion from the ordinary strong verb. These differences do not affect the consonantal part of the stem, and it is, therefore, more correct to regard the guttural verbs as a subdivision of the strong verb. At the most, only the entire omission of the strengthening in some of the verbs middle guttural (as well as in the imperfect Niph'al of verbs first guttural) can be regarded as a real weakness. On the other hand, some original Read more [...]
Grammar

Mappîq

1. Mappîq, llke Dageš, also a point within the consonant, serves in the letters א ה ו י‎ as a sign that they are to be regarded as full consonants and not as vowel letters. In most editions of the text it is only used in the consonantal ה‎ at the end of words (since ה‎ can never be a vowel letter in the middle of a word), e.g. גָּבַהּ‎ gābháh (to be high), אַרְצָהּ‎ ˒arṣāh (her land) which has a consonantal ending (shortened from -hā), different from אַ֫רְצָה‎ Read more [...]