Ver. 15.2

March 7, 2010

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Words Significantly Different in Pronunciation in Pre-exilic Early Biblical Hebrew [1]

By David Steinberg

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1. Nouns (including adjectives) Based on Two Consonants

2. Nouns (including adjectives) Based on Three Consonants Masc. Sing Having One Vowel in EBHP

3. Nouns (including adjectives) Based on Three Consonants Two Short Vowels in EBHP

4. Nouns (including adjectives) Based on Three Consonants Short First Long Second Vowel

5. Nouns (including adjectives) Based on Three Consonants Long First Short Second Vowel

6. Nouns (including adjectives) Based on Three Consonants Two Long Vowels

7. Nouns (including adjectives) based on Three Consonants the Second of which is Geminated having (in masc. sing.)Two Short Vowels

8. Prepositions, Negatives, Adverbs, etc.

N.b. What quality were the Short Vowels in Pre-Exilic Biblical Hebrew (BH)?

1. Nouns (including adjectives) based on Two Consonants

(forms with long (doubled) second consonant follow this link)

Forms	Reconstructed Development to PH (up to c. 1000 BCE)	EBHP */EBHP/ *[EBHP][2] (c. 850-550 BCE)	TH *[TH] (c. 850 BCE)	Meaning/Comments
qaˈlaː fs. of ˈqaːl	/ʾaˈmatu/	/ʾaˈmâ/	אָמָה [ʾɔːˈmɔː]	female servant, slave-wife
	/śaˈpatu/	/śaˈpâ/	שָֺפָה [sɔːˈfɔː]	lip, language
	/šaˈnatu/	/šaˈnâ/	ֺשָנָה [šɔːˈnɔː]	year
qil (Tiberian קֵל)[3]	/ˈʾilu/	/ˈʾeːl/ - abs.	אֵל - abs. [ˈʾẹːl]	god
	/ʾil/	/ʾil/ - cstr. [ʾil]^-or [ʾel]^+	אֶל - constr. [ʾɛl]	god of-
	/ˈbinu/	/ˈbeːn/ - abs.	בֵּן - abs. [ˈbẹːn]	son
	/bin/	/bin/ - cstr. [bin]^-or [ben]^+	בֶּן בִּן - cstr. [bin], [bɛn]	son of-
	/ˈbintu/ > /ˈbittu/	/ˈbat(t)/	בַּת[4] (f.) [ˈbat]	daughter
	/ˈleːṣu/?	/ˈleːṣ/	לֵץ [ˈlẹːṣ]	mocker
	/ˈ^cidu/	/ˈ^ceːd/ - abs.	עֵד [ˈ^cẹːð]	witness
	/^cid/	/^cid/- cstr. [^cid]^-or [^ced]^+		witness of-
	/ˈ^ciṣu/	/ˈ^ceːṣ/ - abs.	עֵץ [ˈ^cẹːṣ]	tree
	/^ciṣ/	/^ciṣ/- cstr. [^ciṣ]^-or [^ceṣ]^+		tree of-
		/ˈri^c/ [ˈri^c]^+or [ˈre^c]^-	רֵעַ [ˈrẹː.a^c]	companion
	/ˈšimu/	/ˈšeːm/ - abs.