Secondary stress after the main stress in פדנה

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Rashi notes multiple times that the -ל prefix can be substituted by a ה- suffix like in Bereishit 28:2:

ק֥וּם לֵךְ֙ פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה אֲרָ֔ם בֵּ֥יתָה בְתוּאֵ֖ל אֲבִ֣י אִמֶּ֑ךָ וְקַח־לְךָ֤ מִשָּׁם֙ אִשָּׁ֔ה מִבְּנ֥וֹת לָבָ֖ן אֲחִ֥י אִמֶּֽךָ׃

Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

In almost all cases I know, this last syllable won't be accented, however, in פדנה there's a secondary stress on the last syllable.* Does it happen due to a retracted accent (nasog achor)? Doesn't it matter that there's a semi-vowel in addition? Are you aware of other examples where the syllable pushing back the accent contains a chataf as well?

^{* In longer words it's normal to have a secondary stress before the primary accent. I assume usually they're before the main one, because the majority of Hebrew words have an ultimate stress.}

possible duplicate https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/11295/759 (off the top of my head, also numbers 17:23 and isaiah 40:8) — Double AA, Nov 07 '21 at 13:10
@DoubleAA Those are clearly nasog achor cases. Does it also work here, as the chataf patach doesn't constitute a syllable on its own? — Kazi bácsi, Nov 07 '21 at 13:20
The Leningrad codex has this kind of meseg in many places where there's a word with a sheva na + one syllable. ודרשת והגידו לך at the beginning of parshas Shoftim and many others. — Heshy, Nov 07 '21 at 18:52
Sorry, not והגידו, it's יגידו in 17:10 and 17:11. — Heshy, Nov 07 '21 at 20:45
@Heshy Then it's not a nasog achor, because no stress is retracted, right? — Kazi bácsi, Nov 08 '21 at 07:13
@Kazi I agree. I don't have an explanation, I've just observed that the Leningrad codex has these mesagim a lot before a sheva-na-plus-one-syllable word, sometimes when the previous word is nasog achor but sometimes when it's just plain mile'eil. I don't think פדנה is a nasog achor either (think מצרימה). — Heshy, Nov 08 '21 at 13:02
Also הנה חלמתי חלום עוד beginning of Vayeishev — Heshy, Nov 21 '21 at 15:23
@Heshy I've looked up the case in R' Breuer's book (see answer), but he doesn't list your second example, because the syllable with a gayah follows a closed syllable. Your first one seems to fit. — Kazi bácsi, Dec 26 '21 at 11:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '21 at 20:43

Mordechai Breuer called this phenomenon the gayah of a long vowel in an open syllable (§46 – געיית התנועה הגדולה בהברה פתוחה). In such cases there is an unaccented open syllable with a long vowel followed by a second accented syllable. On pp. 207–208 in Taamei haMiqra he brings several examples:

In the first group this syllable is followed by a sheva or a chataf:
ק֥וּם לֵךְ֙ פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה אֲרָ֔ם (Bereishit 28:2)
וַיֵּֽנִקֵ֤הֽוּ דְבַשׁ֙ מִסֶּ֔לַע (Devarim 32:13)
שִׂים־לְפָנֶ֣יךָֽ אֱכֹ֔ל (Samuel I 9:24)*
In the second group the following word has an initial stress and a pashta:
וְעָ֤שָֽׂה פֶ֨סַח֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה (Bemidbar 9:14)
וְאַתָּ֞ה עָשִׂ֤יתָֽה חֶ֨סֶד֙ (Samuel I 15:6)
וְאֶת־דְּמֵ֨י בָנָ֜יו רָאִ֤יתִֽי אֶ֨מֶשׁ֙ (Kings II 9:26)*
In the third group there are the exceptions:
אֲ֠שֶׁר לֹֽא־הָיָ֨ה כָמ֥וֹךָֽ אִ֛ישׁ (Kings I 3:13)*
וְנֶ֨פֶשׁ עֲבָדֶ֥יךָֽ אֵ֛לֶּה (Kings II 1:13)

^{* Here Mechon Mamre omits the gayah, but there is one in the Aleppo Codex.}

Secondary stress after the main stress in פדנה

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