In this lesson we will meet the "construct chain", which is the Hebrew method of combining two (or more) nouns, so that one noun describes the other noun in some way. A construct chain may cause some vowel changes in the first noun. One example for that can be the word ים, which means "sea". In the construct chain - ים סוף (the sea of reads), you will see a Patax under the word sea, but when this noun appears in the absolute form, you will see a Qamats there instead of the Patax....
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