World’s Oldest Dictionaries Are 4,500-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets

The text is written in the oldest Semitic language yet identified and deciphered with oldest know bilingual dictionary, written in Sumerian (a language already deciphered) and Elbaite. The Elbaites wrote in columns and used both sides of the tablets. Lists of figures were separated from the totals by a blank column. Treaties, description of wars […]

… and he called it Nobah. mappik

The word לה has no Mappik in the ה (as the word לָהּ “to it”, usually has). Now I have seen the following in the work of rabbi Moshe haDarshan (Moses the Preacher): Because this name did not remain permanently to it, therefore the letter ה is weak (without a Mappik), — the implication of […]