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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">The simple answer is that the Tanakh doesn't always follow the rules of grammar, which were formulated hundreds of years later. For sacred texts, oral tradition overrules grammatical


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<div>Hag sameah, everyone,</div>


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<div>Barry<br>


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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 05, 2018 3:32 PM<br>


<b>To:</b> heb-naco<br>


<b>Subject:</b> [Heb-NACO] grammar question<br>


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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">I am chanting chapters 5-8 of Shir ha-shirim this coming Shabat.</p>


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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">I have a grammar question.</p>


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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">The text in Shir ha-shirim has "<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:"Taamey Frank CLM","SBL Hebrew","Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","Arial Unicode MS"; font-size:21.3333px">אַשְׁקְךָ֙ מִיַּ֣יִן הָרֶ֔קַח"</span></p>


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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:"Taamey Frank CLM","SBL Hebrew","Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","Arial Unicode MS"; font-size:21.3333px">My question is why is there a pataḥ under the first yud instead of a tsere.</span></p>


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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:"Taamey Frank CLM","SBL Hebrew","Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","Arial Unicode MS"; font-size:21.3333px">I have checked several different editions of the Tanakh as well as Briggs-Driver.</span></p>


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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:"Taamey Frank CLM","SBL Hebrew","Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","Arial Unicode MS"; font-size:21.3333px">According to Even-Shoshan and Luaḣ ha-Shemot יין  in סמיכות would have


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<p>Heidi G. Lerner</p>


<p>Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica</p>


<p>Metadata Dept.</p>


<p>Stanford University Libraries</p>


<p>Stanford, CA 94305-6004</p>


<p>ph: 650-725-9953</p>


<p>fax: 650-725-1120</p>


<p>e-mail: lerner@stanford.edu</p>


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