What does (ננ) mean?

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Mike Atnip
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Re: What does (ננ) mean?

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Jason, if you download that vocabulary list document I attached above you will find several words on there whose root is nun-nun. But specifically the first word in Ruth 3:2 is marked as nun-nun root.
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Re: What does (ננ) mean?

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Mike Atnip wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 7:09 am Jason, if you download that vocabulary list document I attached above you will find several words on there whose root is nun-nun. But specifically the first word in Ruth 3:2 is marked as nun-nun root.
I understand that Ruth 3:2 is what we’ve been speaking about this whole time, no?
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Re: What does (ננ) mean?

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Ruth 3:2 is just one instance that had the first word marked as (ננ). I had seen it a number of other times as well.
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