RE: Hebrew Vav Holam

From: Jony Rosenne ([email protected])
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 02:55:03 EDT

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    This supports the opinion that the placement of the Meteg is not material,
    but an esthetic artifact of the scribe.

    Jony

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    > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:18 PM
    > To: Ted Hopp
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    > Yes, there are variations in BHS from place to place here. Here are
    > some statistics for the WTS BHS text which I got from Joan
    > Wardell last
    > year: /meteg/ occurs 78 times centred in a /hataf vowel/ (but never
    > centred in /hataf patah/), six times to the left and twice to
    > the right.
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    > Peter Kirk
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