Cairo Genizah : Grammar

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Verso: on the substitution of consonants and vowels; bottom of verso and recto: chapter 15 concerned with the definition of the notion of the verb and the distinctions in the understanding of this concept by grammarians and philosophers. Mentions Jonah b. Janāḥ and the Sefer Yeṣira. Drawing on arithmetical knowledge (חכמת המספר) it argues that the large number of actions named by verbs necessitates the use of three-radical roots inasmuch as the 22 Hebrew letters provide an insufficient number of two-letter combinations.</p>