anybody heard of an anomalous dagesh in the chet in song of songs 5:16

[ralph]

Has anybody heard of an anomalous dagesh in the chet in song of songs on the word Machmadim?

(I say anomalous dagesh 'cos a dagesh in a gutteral would be an anomaly)

I looked on mechon mamre website and no dagesh there.

[bdenckla]

This dagesh is present in WLC (See "X." in "MAX.:AMAD.I92YM]Q]n]p"). It came to WLC via BHQ rather than BHS. We removed it in UXLC 1.3 because we felt that, on inspection of the color facsimile, the dot in question was not likely made of ink. But we still left in a t-note (transcription note) about it, as can be seen in tanach.us (UXLC) Song 5:16. You can click on the superscript 't' to see the note, but here's a direct link to the UXLC note as well. Here's the UXLC change record but it doesn't add much beyond what the t-note contains.



The Song 5:16 in my "MAM with doc" Tanakh notes (in Modern Hebrew) this possible dagesh in L, and notes UXLC's note about it.

[ralph]

Amazing, Thanks