§ 13.
Ginsburg, Introd., p. 114 ff.: Dagesh and Raphe.
A variety of the c
Dagesë lene is used in many manuscripts, as well as in Baer's editions, though others (including Ginsburg in the first two cases, Introd., pp. 121, 130, 603, 662) reject it together with theHÍatÌefs discussed in § 10 g. It is inserted in consonants other than the Begadkephath to call attention expressly to the beginning of a new syllable: (a) when the same consonant precedes in close connexion, e.g.yBiLi-lk'B. y Ps 9:2, where, owing to theDagesë , the coalescing of the two Lameds is avoided; (b) in cases likeySix.m; y Ps 62:8 =mahÌsiÖ (notmaçhÌasiÖ ); (c) according to some (including Baer; not in ed. Mant.) inaol in the combinationaoL Al Dt 32:5, orAL aol Hb 1:6, 2:6 &c. (so always also in Ginsburg's text, except in Gn 38:9); see also § 20 e and g. — Delitzsch appropriately gives the name ofDagesë orthophonicum to this variety ofDagesë (Bibl. Kommentar, 1874, ony Ps 94:12); cf. moreover Delitzsch, Luth. Ztschr., 1863, p. 413; also his Complutensische Varianten zu dem Alttest. Texte, Lpz. 1878, p. 12