[Mesorah] v'koyai vs v'kovei

[elazar teitz]

    Radak, in his commentary on Nach, writes that it ia "v'koyei."
Specifically, he writes "it is written with a a single yod, which is the
second root letter (ayin hapo'al), and the yod indicaing plural is missing
from the k'siv but remains in the pronunciation."

EMT

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Avram Sacks via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> OK, dikduk mavens, please solve this mystery (at least for me):
>
> From the haftara for Lech L'cha, the pasuk in Yishayahu 40:31 begins with
>
> וקוי
>
> How is this pronounced?
>
> Literally, seconds before I was about to chant the haftara this morning,
> one of our shul's premier ba'alei kriah approached and asked how I
> pronounced this.   Having just discovered the conundrum on leil shabbat, I
> was hoping no one would pay attention.    That was not to be.
>
> There is a sh'va under the first vav, a cholem vav and a tzeirei that
> appears under the yud in two sources I checked, including the Koren Tanach.
>   However, I have a Mikraot Gedolot that displays the tzeirei under the
> second vav.   That Mikraot Gedolot is based on a photographic reproduction
> of the Warsaw edition from 5622 - 5626.
>
> The root is kuf  - vav - heh .   Thus, one might expect that the vav
> should be enunciated.   However, if so, one would expect the tzeirei to be
> under the vav.
>
> The Mikraot Hagedolot Ha-keter, which is the Bar Ilan version, online, has
> the tzeirei under the yud.  All that Radak has to say about this (if I
> understand him, correctly), is that this is written with only one yud, that
> it is the "po-el" form, and that the second yud for the plural form is
> missing as written, but remains in pronunciation.
>
> The Mechon-Mamre online Tanakh, which, supposedly is based on the Aleppo
> Codex, also has the tzeirei under the yud.
>
> So, how is this word pronounced?
>
> Avi
>
> Avram L. Sacks
> Skokie, IL
>
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