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Accents

Conjunctive Accents

Nouns and Nominals

Construct Chains

דָּבָר

דְּבָרִים

 דִּבְרֵי

Amos 1:1

Qamets to Vocal Shewa in an open, unaccented syllable

Pluralization with propretonic reduction

First rule of Shewa: becomes Hireq in a closed syllable

Bibliography

• Gesenius, W.; Kautzsch, E. (1910), Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar: Translated by A.E. Cowley  (2nd English ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0486443447