Shewa Fight

Shewa Fight

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I studied biblical Hebrew in seminary under the teaching of Dr. Russell T. Fuller, author of Invitation to Biblical Hebrew. As anyone who has intensely studied a language knows, the foundational rules of the languages can make or break your understanding of it.

One of the foundational rules in Hebrew is that when two shewas are found at the beginning of a word (Hebrew is read right to left), the first shewa becomes a hirriq. This may not make a lot of sense to those who don’t know a shewa from a hirriq, so I made a simple animation illustrating what Dr. Fuller has famously referred to as a shewa fight.