[Mesorah] Bemidbar or Bamidbar?

[Zev Sero via Mesorah]

On 06/05/2016 12:12 PM, Dov Bloom via Mesorah wrote:
> Of course, Bemidbar is correct.  Art Scroll is not.  In the circles I
> run in,  saying the name correctly is a sign a some erudition,  and
> awareness of how words in the tanach are written/punctuated.

Artscroll is correct, and the circles you run in are not.  The fifth word
of the sedra is "b'midbar", but the short title of the sedra and of the sefer,
is "Bamidbor", with a patoch on the first beis and a komatz on the second.
In older sources you will find a slightly longer title, "Bemidbar Sinai",
which is of course pronounced as it appears.

-- 
Zev Sero               Meaningless combinations of words do not acquire
zev at sero.name          meaning merely by appending them to the two other
                        words `God can'.  Nonsense remains nonsense, even
                        when we talk it about God.   -- C S Lewis