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<DIV>In a message dated 8/12/2007 3:49:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ddcohen@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>In
yesterday's haftarah, we read, "vesamti kadkhod shimshosayikh"<BR>(Yesha`yahu
54:12).<BR><BR>I would have expected the first kaf to be soft, since the
te`amim group it<BR>together with the previous word, "vesamti," which ends
with a vowel. Yet<BR>instead, it has a dageish.<BR><BR>I would have
expected the second kaf to have a dageish kal, since it comes<BR>after a sheva
nach. Yet instead, the dagesh is missing, and it is a
soft<BR>khaf. (FWIW, the one other place where this word appears in
Tanakh,<BR>Yechezkeil 27:16, the dageish is there as expected.)<BR><BR>Does
anybody have an explanation for why it says "vesamti kadkhod" instead<BR>of
"vesamti khadkod"?<BR><BR>As an aside, when I opened up my Mikra'os Gedolos (a
reprint of one of the<BR>classic editions) to see if perhaps the Radak says
anything on the matter<BR>(he doesn't), I found that the text printed there
was exactly as I would<BR>have expected it, on both counts --
khadkod!<BR><BR>--D.C.<BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>So could it be that in some print editions there is just a mistake?</DIV>
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