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Joshua Meisner wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:33 PM, David J Havin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:djhavin@iprimus.com.au"><djhavin@iprimus.com.au></a>wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Why, in each of the seven instances in the *Tanach*, does the *Shalsheleth
*appear on the first word of the sentence?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->The shalsheles serves a role similar to that of a zakeif gadol; much as the
zakeif gadol replaces the zakeif katon within a one-word secondary </pre>
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this I get because the zakeif gadol is frequently in mid-passuk<br>
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<pre wrap="">division
of a passuk that has no room for a preceding pashta, y'tiv, or munach
(unless said one word is very short or very long), so, too, the shalsheles
replaces the segol </pre>
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What's your source? Also, how would one know that the it is a segol
that the shalsheles is replacing? I think shalsheles is followed each
time by a pesik (vertical line), which is not the case with a segol.<br>
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<pre wrap="">within a one-word secondary division </pre>
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this I <u>don't</u> get: what makes the word on which the shalsheles
is installed "a secondary division"?<br>
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<pre wrap="">that has no room for
a preceding zarka. Since segol is only used at the head </pre>
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Do you mean "end"?<br>
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<pre wrap="">of a chain of
secondary phrases (each of which, save the last, is concluded by a zakeif),
it follows logically that shalsheles would only be used as a ta'am in a
one-word initial secondary phrase, making it the first word in the passuk.
- Josh
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Noach Witty<br>
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