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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	5,424	5	10.2024	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30686	Bêt̲ ḥokt̲̂, the house of wisdom Bêt̲ benê hamebî'îm, the house of the sons of the prophets : Bêt̲ hemmidraš, an house of exquisite enquiry, and of deep research, where the mind of Jehovah Ælochim in the Holy Scriptures of truth ... is diligently studies, faithfully compared ...	Bampfield, Francis, 1615 or 16-1683.	1681 (1681)	Wing B622; ESTC R32542	45,712	28

and therefore they signed the latter vowel with two points as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 judicio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 puer In the Hebrew Language a vowel is that letter which doth give a sound The proper vowel is alwaies a vowel or vocal and it is is either long or short the Proper long vowel is that which is spoken with a long drawn out sound or of double time The short vowel is that which is pronounced or spoken with a short quick sound and is of simple single or short time Thus they have in Musick There is a long note and a short note A Breve Semibreve Minim Why those vowels which they call improper should not be vocal that is sounding in the voice alwayes where written in the Original consider whether there be any grounded reason for it either in Scripture or in Nature There are divers exceptions which are brought in by some against some commonly received Rules One is that they make no Dipthongs of any two vowels at all though the Compounded improper vowels do consist of two short vowels Another that they reckon some Letters to be Vowels which yet are Consonants as when they express a Dipthong they say that is a Sound of two Vowels joyned into one Syllable A third is that they admit of no Dipthongs where one Letter is a Consonant and the other letter a simple vowel or a Compound vowel The grounds on which the Excepters do enter their Dissent are these one is because by these Rules they speak otherwise than they write and they write otherwise than they speak what some have observed of the people of one Nation that they neither do as they write nor write as they speak nor speak as they think nor think as they would be thought having a quite contrary meaning than what can be gathered from their words Another is that they make not a Sufficient distinction in the sounds of many words which yet are of different signification whereas one great end of voices and of sounds in speaking is (x) 1 Cor. 14. 7 8 9 10 11. intelligiblenes without this men speak into the Air and the hearers do not so well understand what that is which is said Nature even in other creatures doth instruct in this For it doth evidence it self not only in the voice of a Rational man but also in the voice of Bruit beasts and in chirping birds For they all do designate somewhat distinctly by their sound and voice to one another which doth carry some meaning with it such as they have a perception and knowledg of they understand how they are affected either well pleased or some way agrieved by the very tone and noise in their way of expressing it either calling upon each other to come away to help one another or to partake in some sensible good or giving warning to them to be aware of some evil when they are apprehensive of danger yea the sound of lower creatures as of a drum or trumpet how many several things do they speak unto Souldiers and Armies being certain signs of determinate warlick affairs if there be not an intelligible force or significant power going along in speaking and utterance of letters syllables and words we shall be as Barbarians to one another the Idiom of the Language being outlandish and forrain strange and unknown From this also other inconveniences do follow For it will hinder profiting and edifying for want of ability in free conferring which is one dangerous hurt which the Jews the Israelites do wound their souls with by keeping up such a tone and way of pronouncing the Hebrew words which they would have no Christain so thorowly to be versed in that we can hardly treat with them about the grand concerns of the Scripture-religion they affirming that no man can utter the Hebrew language aright unless the instruments of speech be used to frame unto it from the Childhood and there are diverse of the Hebrew letters particularly as to their Sound uttered by A and H with so little difference in the voice that the proper significancy of many words is much clouded thereby This also doth further leave a great discouragement upon the spirit of young Scholars who fear lest after some years study to get skill in this Tongue they shall then be very far to seek as to a right pronunciation the Jews having gotten such a name for this Hebrew language because it is more their mother tongue then of other people though in several letters syllables and words their manner of bringing them forth into sound is not so Articulat so joynted so distinct so significant and express as that which more according to the very nature of the instruments of speech in the throat Palat Nose Tongue Teeth Gums cheeks and lips either pure and single or joined and double they do not distinctly take in all natural sounds neither is their voice so articulate as to make it very intelligible if it were written as they pronounce it how soon might a discerning Eye see that were words written as the Jews and some others do utter that many words and Phrases of Scripture would have their sence in Syntax much wronged How much did that one letter (y) Judg. 12. 6. Psal 69. 3. Isa 28. 11. 32. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cost some even their very lives when some pronounced it sh and others only as a single S the Ephraimits whether from some impediment in their speech stammering and lisping out of their words or by evil custom or whatever else might be the cause were many of them thereby deprehended and slain It were worth the Inquiry Seeing that the Hebrew tongue was the language of all the Tribes of Israel of that Tribe of Ephraim as of the rest of the Tribes how this corrupt pronunciation should so run into a Tribe was it a natural imperfection in the shape of their mouth and so an Hereditary defect in their lip or tongue or some other Instrument of speech or was it an evil Habit gotten by Apish imitation for though the first Adam were created a speaking creature yet children now in the ordinary way do learn to speak by imitation of Sounds which they hear and by eyeing the motion of the mouth of those who do speak having some little perception of consent of Dissent between Audibles visibles or was it from the quality of the Air hot cold dry or moist to excess from the nature of the Soil or influence of winds because its borders Eastward had all along the river Jordan westward the mediterranean Sea as it has been observed of a village at Charleton in Leicestershire that the Inhabitants therein have a wharling in their utterance not speaking that with clearness and distinctness as others (z) See Camdens Brit. in Leicestershire or was it from bodily constitution and temperament The Tongue of some