An introductory Hebrew grammar with progressive exercises in reading and writing / by A.B. Davidson.

  • Andrew B. Davidson
Date:
1909
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    from Leiiig neglected it is often marked by Meilieg (Kem. d p. I7)d In a few cases 1 takes Dag. forte, e. g. I >Sani. l. (]; 10. 24; 17. 25. ITov. 3. 8; 14. 10; (Vll. 21 ; 15. 1). Hong 5. 2. Jer. 39. 12. Rzek. 16, 4. Otherwise the vowel is uniformly prolonged before it. This probably points to a double way of pronouncing the resh. EXERCISE: CORRECT THE FOLLOWING WORDS. ,Tyti .n'birn ,pTn .Jturi’r’ ,ibs: ,dpt!25< .n'rxs pbnb ,n'9S3 ,p-Tnri ,3>:n .nrns pn^b § 9. THE QUIESCENT LETTEES. The letters '' l n shew the same kind of feebleness that the letters h w y, that correspond to three of them, have in English: they frequently coalesce in various ways with the vowel sounds about them.^ 1. They are real consonants at the beginning of a syl- lable, but at the end of a syllable after a full vowel they generally surrender their consonantal power and are silent; e. g. IDS 'ct-mar, but y6-mcir\ y^me, but hi-me. They do not modify the sound of the vowel before them when silent, though it is often lengthened, particularly if it be of the first or third class. Sh^va is not placed under the silent consonant (§ 5. 6). Eem. a. The letter S may be silent after any vowel sound, either medial or final. ^ When the short vowel remains before the gutt., Dag. forte is then, in the language of many Grammarians, said to be implied in the gutt, {Dag. forte implicitum). The punctuation, however, appears to treat the short vowel as forming an open s^dL, Is. 1. 4 they despise, Zeph. 1. 17 as the blind. In a few instances, where characteristic duplication is not omitted, the strong gutt. admits a short vowel before it, e. g. one, in«, pi. other, inD(?) sivift, C]''nS brothers. ^ The facts stated in 1 suffice for the exercise; 2, 3, 4 had better be passed over and read only when referred to.