[sword-devel] Hebrew Segmentation

[Tom Sullivan]

Y'all:

Sometimes, one will see something like:
עַל־פְּנֵי
That upper "hyphen," like the vowel points, is a human interpretation 
that does not appear in any MSS. But it is a standard. Unfortunately, it 
should not be used to delineate "segments" which, I gather from the 
context of the discussion, are a morphological help. I went back and 
looked at my first Hebrew textbook and they do the same kind of thing we 
do in English, to wit, use an en-dash to delineate fragments. Here is an 
example in English, quite contrived:
In English, we create the past tense by adding -ed to the end of the 
word. (Sorry, I can't make an en-dash, used a hyphen.)

But this kind of thing is always in tutorial text. I have never seen 
"segments" in BDB, AKOT, etc.

If this is of any help ...
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