It is certainly probable that the nabhi a emerged by a process of continued development, of which the intermediate stages are lost, from the older roeh, as the explanatory gloss in i Sam.
25a (TO 'yap luva dpos EaTiv Ev Tj'ApasLa) probably represents the explanatory and prosaic gloss of a later editor, as many scholars have seen from Bentley (Opuscula philologica, 1781, pp. 533 f.) to H.
The short remarks explanatory of words in the text, originally written in the margin, became the gloss which, formed thus by successive additions, took a permanent form and losses.
explanatory הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד