Wrong Hebrew Transliteration?

[Martin Z]

In Dan 8:12  

וְצָבָא תִּנָּתֵן עַל־הַתָּמִיד בְּפָשַׁע וְתַשְׁלֵךְ אֱמֶת אַרְצָה וְעָשְׂתָה וְהִצְלִיחָה׃

 

 

עָשְׂתָה is transliterated as ʿostah.

 

 

 עָשְׂתָהʿostah   (עשׂה) עשׂה־1 Verb qal perf 3 fem sing consec  to do, make (Predicate)

 

 

But it is a WeQatal verb, shouldn't it be transliterated as wǝʿāsǝtâh (the metheg is not consistantly present to mark Qamets in the Leningrad)?

 

[Michel Gilbert]

Hi Martin,

Yes, it is incorrect. If עָשְׂ was a closed CvC syllable, transliterated ʿos , then there would be a dagesh in the ת . But there isn't, which shows תָה follows a vocal shewa. So the syllables are  עָ שְׂ תָה . I don't want to get into your transliteration - did you use "t" based on Modern Hebrew not distinguishing the sounds ת and תּ ? And, why ā and â for ָ    ? Nor do I want to discuss whether שְׂ is a syllable or half-syllable. The main thing is the ת without a dagesh tells us everything we need to know to transliterate and parse; metheg is not required.

Regards,

Michel

 

Edited עָשׂ

Edited January 21, 2019 by Michel Gilbert

[Martin Z]

Thanks, Michel.

I got the transliteration from BibleWorks BHT module. It has its own transliteration system. I pasted it and did a little bit change. My main focus was on the Qamets/Qamets Hatuf error. So I did not pay much attention on the rest of the transliterations.

 

 

 

 

 

[Joel Brown]

Martin, it is been a pretty difficult task for us to transliterate the Qamets correctly 100% of the time.  We'll keep looking into a more reliable algorithm, and thank you for the report.

[Martin Z]

Thanks, Joel.

Looks like when the metheg is not present, the transliteration is always qamets hatuf even in places it should be qamets.

I've seen a few other these cases.