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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D">As is my wont, I am adding my ½¢ (ha’penny, for those whose computers don’t recognize symbols), to RDB’s accurate comment:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D">Some forms have a dagesh in some locations, some do not. Even forms without a dagesh may have a sh’wa na‘, as in ham’khasseh shamayim b‘avim in T’hillim 147:8: the mem has
a hataph in the Keter, indicating that it is a sh’wa na‘.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D">However, some forms always have a dagesh and others never have a dagesh. Halwiyyim (after all, the yod DOES have a dagesh chazaq) never has a dagesh in the lamed. More
than that, it never appears with a ge</span><span style="font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D">‘ayah underneath the lamed in the Keter and Leningrad (only in later printings), nor does it ever appear with a hataph vowel in the Keter and Leningrad.
That seems to indicate with as much certainty as we can ever have that the sh’wa under the lamed is nah, as RDB indicated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif";color:black">Seth Mandel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Mesorah [<a href="mailto:mesorah-bounces@lists.aishdas.org">mailto:mesorah-bounces@lists.aishdas.org</a>] On Behalf Of D&E-H Bannett via Mesorah<br>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 6:05 AM<br>
To: R Davidovich<br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [Mesorah] Lamed in haleviyim<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Re: <<Why does the lamed in the word haleviyim not have a dageish?>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Perhaps because the word is not haleviyim but halviyim. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">BTW, in the Keter and the accurate manuscripts there is also no meteg in the hei.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The absence of a dagesh in the letter with sheva after the hei is quite common in the Tanakh and has been the subject of many postings in Mesora. IIRC, in words beginning with ham with sh'va under mem, the majority of nouns have a degesh
and the majority of verbs and adjectives do not have a dagesh.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">David <o:p></o:p></p>
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