Towards Better Davening and Torah Reading

Towards Better Davening and Torah Reading
Received this email from DL about last week's comments on HA-CHAI.
If the only time the HEI of HACHAI has a KAMATZ (in No'ach) was the only time HACHAI is a noun, it would be a neat explanation for the anomaly. However, it is also a noun most times it appears in Melachim Alef 3. For example, B'NI HACHAI there means "my son is the live one" and not "my live son" or "my son is alive" (which would be B'NI CHAI). It is also a noun in Kohelet 7:2, V'HACHAI YITEN EL LIBO. The word in No'ach, therefore, is just an exception with no apparent reason.

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