Saturday, September 12, 2009

נער / נערה

Looked it up in a Concordance after learning מסורת המסורה.

If I haven't made a mistake it comes out that there are 22 mentions of נערה in the Torah (14 of which are adjacent to each other in Pr' Ki Tetzei).

All are written חסר as נער except for one of the four written by מוציא שם רע :
וְעָנְשׁוּ אֹתוֹ מֵאָה כֶסֶף, וְנָתְנוּ לַאֲבִי הַנַּעֲרָה

Fascinating. Particularly interesting to contrast this pasuk with that of אונס :
וְנָתַן הָאִישׁ הַשֹּׁכֵב עִמָּהּ, לַאֲבִי הַנַּעֲרָ--חֲמִשִּׁים כָּסֶף

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