דִּבֵּר
ORIGINALRH-065
Hebrew Letters · Dots and Consonant Contrasts
Dagesh can also mark doubling
RH-065HebrewSquare Hebrew script and Masoretic reading notation
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST
דִּבֵּר
Transliterationdibber
Plain meaninghe spoke
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
Dagesh can also mark doubling
A dagesh is not always merely a b/v, k/kh, or p/f switch. In forms such as דִּבֵּר, a dagesh in the middle radical belongs to a pattern historically associated with consonant doubling. You do not need to reconstruct historical phonology now; simply learn that “dot inside a letter” has more than one possible function.
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dibber
READINGApproved transliteration
he spoke
MEANINGHebrew
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