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Posted: **Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:26 am**

I am constantly coming accross this issue where the word for 'captivity' has a qeri and a ketiv. I chose Jeremiah 29:14 as just one of many many examples where the qeri reading is insisted upon. I simply can not fathom out why, I have found not one single hebrew reference either in my books or online that explains this issue, and this is a rare thing not to find someone mentioning an obvious biblical situation such as this.

וְנִמְצֵאתִי לָכֶם נְאֻם־יְהוָה וְשַׁבְתִּי אֶת־שביתכם שְׁבוּתְכֶם

Thank you
Chris watts

Posted: **Thu Dec 01, 2022 11:28 am**

Do you have access to HALOT? They spend some time talking about the oddity under the entry שְׁבוּת. DCH breaks שְׁבוּת into three different entries, but it doesn’t talk about the -ut/-it distinction except to basically indicate that they are the same sense.

Posted: **Thu Dec 01, 2022 12:17 pm**

Thank you Jason for your response. No I do not have HALOT nor DCH.
Chris watts

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