[Mesorah] Kimchi's rules

[Simon Montagu]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 9:32 PM Danny Levy via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> Further to R' David's clarification, I think that the following may be a
> good example of a difference between a rule of dikduk and a masoretic rule.
>
> One of the rules of trop (a masoretic rule by all counts) that is easily
> verified by looking anywhere in Tanach (except for Sifrei Eme"t) is that
> the mesharet of a tvir is a darga if the te'amim are separated by two or
> more syllables, and a mercha if the te'amim are adjacent or separated by
> only one syllable.  In this rule a shva na is counted as a syllable,
> whether it is a shva na at the beginning of a word (e.g. Gen 15:7 and Num
> 17:11) or a shva na under a letter with a dagesh chazak (e.g. Num 34:5 and
> Deut 1:30).
> A shva after a Kimchi long vowel, however, is not counted as a syllable,
> e.g in Ex 9:15 and 12:22.  Evidently the Ba'alei Hamesorah considered such
> a shva to be nach.
>

On the other hand, Ex 9:15 shows that the Ba'alei Mesorah *did* consider
the shva to be sufficiently na` that there is no dagesh in a following
BGDKFT letter.
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