[Mesorah] vay'an'cha (vayar'ivecha)

[Yitzchak M. Gottlieb]

On Aug 16, 2008, at 22:59, Michael Hamm wrote:

> One of the local baale k'ria here pointed out to me that the tikun  
> kor'im "simanim" marks the sh'va under the yod in  
> "vay'an'cha" (Ekev 8:3) as nach, even though there's a meseg under  
> the vav (presumably because there's no dagesh in the yod as there  
> usually is in this form of past- tense verb, e.g. twice in that  
> same pasuk).  Is this correct: that it's nach?  For what it's  
> worth, Minchas Shay says nothing on this word.

My guess is that the simanim is correct since the meteg would seem to  
be a ga'ya k'veda (געיא כבדה סדירה)---(word has the  
appropriate form and a מפסיק (mafsik).

Zuki

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Yitzchak M. Gottlieb
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