[Avodah] The Shin Prefix

[jay via Avodah]

> 
> ("Sha-" is not only specific to LT, it's only used from the
> historical period from seifer Yeho[s]hua through Shemu'el.
>

Unless it appears in Genesis 6:3, where it is a pattax followed by a
dagesh xazaq, which is of course the same thing as a qamatz when the
following letter cannot take a dagesh xazaq.


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