Tuesday 13 October 2020

Two atnach in one verse

 Two atnach in one verse, Genesis 35:22.

I have been trying to account for a mismatch on one word that should not be a mismatch according to my coding, but that is just the issue with debugging - one often can't see why something is happening. I eventually found the extra chr(010) in my input stream and the discrepancy disappeared as it should have.

Then I noted that this verse has two emperors! 

How did I fail to note this? Perhaps all my statistical routines assume that there is only zero or one such accent in a verse. It looks as if the music program gets both repetitions, but it fails to note the rest in the text. (It usually puts in a pause // at the subdominant cadence.) In both instances there are two accents on the one syllable. Again this is a rare situation in the music, most frequent in the decalogue chapters.

Genesis 35:22 a unique case of two atnach in one verse.
 וַיְהִ֗י בִּשְׁכֹּ֤ן יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בָּאָ֣רֶץ הַהִ֔וא וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ רְאוּבֵ֔ן וַיִּשְׁכַּ֕ב֙ אֶת־בִּלְהָ֖ה֙ פִּילֶ֣גֶשׁ אָבִ֑֔יו וַיִּשְׁמַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵֽ֑ל פ 
וַיִּֽהְי֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יַעֲקֹ֖ב שְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָֽׂר




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