[Mesorah] Nikud on YKVK

[Hayyim Obadyah]

This is an interesting question. 
Perhaps it's because the Masoretes normally pronounced a shewa as a short
pathah (just like hataf-pathah) but would need to differentiate the
hataf-seghol?
Hayyim


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Subject: Re: [Mesorah] Nikud on YKVK

<snip>

>A chataf is really just a jumped-up sheva; it's what a sheva na becomes
when it appears on a guttural letter (alef, hei, chet, ayin, resh). So in
the Shem Adnus, the sheva becomes a chataf-patach, because an alef can't
have a sheva na; but transpose the same vowel to a yud and it remains a
sheva.

     But the same reasoning applies when the Shem is pronounced Elokim, yet
there the chataf remains under the yud, and does not revert to a sh'va.  Why
the difference?

EMT 


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