[Mesorah] Trivia Question. Pausal Komatz @ Tipcha

Zev Sero via Mesorah mesorah at lists.aishdas.org
Wed Jun 29 17:27:10 PDT 2016


On 06/29/2016 08:08 PM, Michael Poppers via Mesorah wrote:
> RRW, are you referring to "vayichar af H' bam vayeilach" (where "bam"
> is not vowelized differently just because the tipcha is the major
> intra-pasuq mafsiq, but it is a qamatz in the accented syllable of
> the word graced by the pasuq's major intra-pasuq mafsiq)?  If so, the
> answer to the bonus Q is that there are likely many -- one which
> immediately occurs to me is "vayeishev Yitzchaq biGrar."

Neither of these are pausal komatzes.  Both words would have a kamatz
no matter where they occurred.

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