[Mesorah] another dikduk question

[Michael Hamm]

Achad shahat.

Most hif'il words in past tense have a chirik under the first letter
(he), and a shoresh whose first letter is resh generally forms no
exception: hirchik, hirtza, hir'im, hirkin.  Yet "showed" is her'a,
not hir'a: why?

Menashe Hamm

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Michael Hamm
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Department of Psychiatry
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Mo. 63110
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