Re: [Hebrew] dagesh qal - special case question

>> Are there any other words of the form B'RAXA that get a dagesh in the
>> contruct case?
>
>The harvest is a bit poor: only one word with the same pattern as

Inded.

>The exact search pattern was 'I[^AFE"IOWU]:[BGDKPT][.]?[/]?[AF]\d*T',

(I wish I had software that could do that.)

But even with only two words, we can look at the more general grammar,
and note that in the entire Masoretic tradition, the only
non-segholate to gain a dagesh kal in smixut is BIRKAT-. (I think.)


-Joel Hoffman
http://www.exc.com/JoelHoffman


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