I have been examining paired letter patterns in Hebrew roots. The previous two posts have dealt with vav and tet, the two letters that account for 20 of the 37 individual letter pairs that are not used in the first two letters of any roots. We also saw the 20 pairs (e.g. bp pb) of individual letter pairs that are rarely if ever used (except where a letter of the pair is used grammatically as a prefix or suffix letter).
The 17 remaining single letter pairs are: gs, ds, dx, hz, zw, / ka, kh, lz, ln, ls, / lx, sw, pm, xw, qz, / qk, ts
The reverse of each of these two letters is used as the first letter of some roots (they too may be rare but they are non-zero).
So are any of the above 17 sequences used at all in Hebrew phonation?
gs - 0, ds - 10 - looks like two borrowed words and a name showing Song and Qohelet as having words of late origin.
| prds | prds | פרדס are a paradise of Song 4:13 | |
| prds | uprdsim | ופרדסים and orchards Qohelet 2:5 | |
| hdsh | -hdsh | הדסה Hadassah Esther 2:7 | |
| hds | hhdsim | ההדסים the myrtle Zechariah 1:8 | |
| hds | hds | הדס a myrtle Isaiah 55:13 | |
| hds | vhds | והדס and myrtle Isaiah 41:19 | |
| prds | hprds | הפרדס the paradise Nehemiah 2:8 | |
| hds | hds | הדס myrtle Nehemiah 8:15 |
hz 0 in roots but many where h is acting as part of a prefix.
zw - 0, ka (107) mostly the infamous Ahab, and a few for the gloss clap perhaps showing that Psalms 98 is contemporary with Second Isaiah. The one instance with wind is the Aramaic grammatical use of aleph as the definite article.
| mka | imkau | ימחאו clap Psalms 98:8 | |
| akab | akab | אחאב Ahab 2 Kings 1:1 | |
| ivka | vioka | ויחא and Joha 1 Chronicles 11:45 | |
| rvk | ruka | רוחא the wind Daniel 2:35 | |
| xika | -xika | ציחא Tsixa Ezra 2:43 | |
| plka | plka | פלחא Pilexa Nehemiah 10:25 |
kh (1,317) - frequent as the last letter of a word and occasionally of a root. What do we make of this 'final h'? It is sometimes the suffix indicating direction - towards.
| prk | hprkh | הפרחה the flourishing of Song 6:11 | |
| mwpkh | -hmwpkh | המשפחה the families Amos 3:1 | |
| mnkh | umnkoticm | ומנחתיכם and your gifts Amos 5:22 | |
| +pk | 'tipkh | טפחה cloaked Isaiah 48:13 | |
| xlk | vhxlikh | והצליחה and prosper Nehemiah 1:11 | |
| mnkh | umnkthon | ומנחתהון and their gifts Ezra 7:17 | |
| wlk | vawlkh | ואשלחה and I sent Nehemiah 6:8 | |
| nkh | hnkitm | הנחיתם you guided them Nehemiah 9:12 | |
| mnkh | -hmnkh | המנחה the gift Nehemiah 13:9 | |
| wkh | lhwtkvot | להשתחות to worship 1 Samuel 1:3 | |
| pkh | pkot | פחות viceroys Jeremiah 51:23 | |
| zrk | mzrkh | מזרחה toward the sunrise Jeremiah 31:40 | |
| xmk | xmkh | צמחה the growth Psalms 65:11 |
lz (211)
| zbk | lzbok | לזבח to sacrifice 1 Kings 3:4 | |
| ylz | aylozh | אעלזה I will exult Psalms 60:8 | |
| zry | ulzryç | ולזרעך and to your seed Numbers 18:19 | |
| zat | lzat | לזאת this one Genesis 2:23 | |
| zh | hlzh | הלזה this Genesis 24:65 | |
| zry | lzryç | לזרעך to your seed Genesis 24:7 | |
| znh | lznunim | לזנונים from harlotry Genesis 38:24 |
ln (86) including one side of the phrase ploni almoni, an old idiom? used only three times - not always politely.
| clnh | clnh | כלנה Kalneh Amos 6:2 | |
| zbln | zbulun | זבלון Zebulun Psalms 68:28 | |
| plni | ploni | פלני what a Ruth 4:1 | |
| kln | -kilon | חלן Helon Numbers 1:9 | |
| wlni | hwlni | השלני the Shelanites Numbers 26:20 | |
| gvln | -goln | גולן Golan Deuteronomy 4:43 | |
| gilni | hgiloni | הגילני the Gilonite 2 Samuel 15:12 | |
| plni | ploni | פלני suitable 1 Samuel 21:3 | |
| plni | ploni | פלני suitable 2 Kings 6:8 |
ls (23) for roots, (92) if we include the use of l as a prefix.
| bls | ubols | ובולס a tender of Amos 7:14 | |
| pls | tplsun | תפלסון you level out Psalms 58:3 | |
| qls | vqls | וקלס and ridicule Psalms 44:14 | |
| yls | nylsh | נעלסה a peacock thrilled Job 39:13 | |
| alsr | alsr | אלסר Eliasar Genesis 14:1 |
lx is also used for the grammatical role of l (179) and for letters of roots after the first (89 of the 179).
| klx | iiklxun | יחלצון may be rescued Psalms 60:7 | |
| plx | plxut | פלצות tremors Psalms 55:6 | |
| ylx | iylxu | יעלצו they will be elated Psalms 68:4 | |
| klx | aklxç | אחלצך I will rescue you Psalms 50:15 | |
| klx | vklxni | וחלצני and rescue me Psalms 119:153 | |
| mlx | -nmlxu | נמלצו gratifying Psalms 119:103 |
sw (0), pm (65) including those times when m is a suffix. 10 roots end in pm - but only names.
| +np | a'tnpm | אטנפם should I soil them Song 5:3 | |
| ap | apm | אפם their anger Psalms 124:3 | |
| rdp | rodpm | רדפם their persecutor Psalms 35:6 | |
| wpm | vwpm | ושפם and Shepham 1 Chronicles 5:12 | |
| wpvpm | lwpupm | לשפופם of Shpupham Numbers 26:39 | |
| wpvpmi | hwupmi | השופמי the Shpuphamites Numbers 26:39 | |
| kvpm | lkupm | לחופם of Xupam Numbers 26:39 | |
| kvpmi | hkupmi | החופמי the Xupamites Numbers 26:39 |
xw (0), qz (0), qk (1,050)
| wlk | viqku | ויקחו and they sent for Genesis 37:31 | |
| pqk | piqkim | פקחים the sighted Exodus 23:8 | |
| lqk | lqok | לקוח take Ezekiel 24:5 | |
| rqk | hmrqkh | המרקחה its perfume Ezekiel 24:10 |
ts (1) root (84) with grammatical usage.
| str | tstirni | תסתירני you will hide me Psalms 64:3 | |
| str | tstir | תסתיר is hidden Psalms 44:25 | |
| spr | tspru | תספרו you may recount it Psalms 48:14 | |
| smc | tsmcni | תסמכני support me Psalms 51:14 | |
| svr | vtsr | ותסר and she put aside Genesis 38:14 | |
| nts | ntsu | נתסו they disfigure Job 30:13 |
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