THE HEBREW LETTER NUN GOES MISSING A LOT
One of the most notable instances of our missing 14th letter is in Psalms 145. The verse is missing from all Hebrew Prayer Books (Siddurim) around the world except for mine where I retrieved it. The verse was missing for over two thousand years and various people came up with idiotic reasons for why the verse was missing. Psalm 145 is an acrostic build on the Hebrew alphabet which every Hebrew student should have learned. So if a letter is obviously missing this does not go unnoticed. But some time around 1949 a shepard wantered into Cave 4 of Qumron in the Judean desert and discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls. And as parts were ransomed and recovered eventually the scroll were examined and studied., And low and behold the missing line magically appeared as shown below.
THE MISSING HEBREW LETTER NUN IN DAUGHTER
This topic is very advanced and will be difficult for non-Hebrew speakers. So do your best or continue to a more appropriate topic.
In the sequence of sons and daughters we go around the circle. A son is BEN. The plural, sons, is BANIM. Now we go over to the female side and daughters is BANOT. But then we find the singular of daughter is BAT pronounced B-AH-T and teh expected Nun is missing. All the other 3 son/daughter words have the Nun but not the singular of daughter. The reaoning as we will see is that NUN is a weak letter and will evaporate every chance it gets. And to help us out we look to our cousin language Arabic where NUN is not weak. Here a daughter is BINT and daughters is BIN-AA-T. The issue here is that most of the time Hebrew has solid 3 letter roots and this makes life very well structured and predicatible. When letters disappear we get into confusing situation where we don’t have all the information to reliably perform our analysis and predictions.
In the sequence of sons and daughters we go around the circle. A son is BEN. The plural, sons, is BANIM. Now we go over to the female side and daughters is BANOT. But then we find the singular of daughter is BAT pronounced B-AH-T and teh expected Nun is missing. All the other 3 son/daughter words have the Nun but not the singular of daughter. The reaoning as we will see is that NUN is a weak letter and will evaporate every chance it gets. And to help us out we look to our cousin language Arabic where NUN is not weak. Here a daughter is BINT and daughters is BIN-AA-T. The issue here is that most of the time Hebrew has solid 3 letter roots and this makes life very well structured and predicatible. When letters disappear we get into confusing situation where we don’t have all the information to reliably perform our analysis and predictions.
IMPERITIVE VERB FORMS FOR ROOTS BEGINNING WITH A NUN
If we take many of the roots beginning with a nun and form the imperitive command form we see that in many of them the nun goes AWOL.
For example the root NTN נתן the imperitive is TN and the leading Nun drops. A second example is to travel NSA נסע and the imperitive is S-A or סע. The list goes on and on. Another letter when this happens but only rarely is the lamed ל and in take or לקח. The imperitive is K-H or קח. But I would be hard pressed to think of another example with the lamed.
