[Avodah] Who First Said it?

[Zev Sero]

Joe Schoemann wrote:

> I recently heard that Dovid Hamelech asked one of his generals, why he
> hadn't wiped out the whole of Amolek, he had not killed the women . The
> general replied that the Torah say zecher Amolok and not the women. So this
> is an old error.

Yo'av's rebbe taught him "z'char" (sheva na, patach), which is definitely
wrong, and that rebbe paid the ultimate penalty for ziyuf hatorah.  But
this is irrelevant to the segol/tzere safek. 

> Why we perpetuate this error puzzles me.

Which error?  Which version are you regarding as an error, and why?

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