A new elementary grammar of (what is usually called) the "Hebrew" language of the Old Testament Volume 1 ; On the reading, together with the Hebrew ... with practical grammar of the word-forms

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... and 'Little'Pathakh' (i.e. Opening) correspond with the Great and Little channels of utterance for the vowels in (3) and (4). Is this so, or not, in the case of (l)and (2)? The name 'Little K.' in (2) does correspond with the Small channel for the utterance of-=-; arid the question which we will try to answer in this App. is (a) Can the name 'Great K.' also correspond with a Great Channelutterance, for T, in (1) 1 Analogy seems to shew that those who gave the name thought so: and (/3) such would suit well the broad guttural sound of a stream of utterance filling the throat and the mouth wide-open,--and issuing from the cavern-like pit of the throat. But there is an objection. (y) The name 'Kaumets' is generally said to signify 'compression,' 'contraction,' 'shutting' of the mouth. There is so much authority for this, that it must be treated with respect. But Some suppose that Kaumets in the sense of closing or contracting the mouth had reference to the o sound given by some as the value of this long x". Dr Ewald writes "Dp 6 (a) contraction zusammenziehung from the contraction of the mouth" for o, and states that the appellation Kaumets for both "d andff" originates thus from those who wrongly read a as o " die benennung Qamess fiir a und 0 stammt also von solchen, welche a unrichtig o lasen," where the sign a. stands for his a value of--, and Q for p (Cp. p. 3, note. Those who so "wrongly read" may perhaps be glad to find antiquity allowed for their socfaulty practice, for the name Kaumets is of some antiquity. One modern Writer, who gives 'Compression' as the meaning (and a as the value) of Kaumets, states:--"It is certain, from a distinct statement of Ebn Ezra (Tsachoth, p. 2, b), that "the scholars...