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Homographs

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Stress

Some words look identical except that the stress is on a different syllable:

• בואי, קומי, שירי, שובי - These can all be either feminine imperatives, or possessive nouns (my getting up)
•  באה, קמה, שרה, שבה – These can be either past tense or present tense.

Mappik Some words are indistinguishable except for the fact that there is a mappik in one of their letters:

• אִשָּׁה (woman) vs  אִישָׁהּ (her husband) – See Bemidbar 5:29. 
• השקה (to give to drink) vs. וְהִשְׁקָהּ (to give her to drink)  – Compare Bemidbar 5:24 and 27.

Dagesh

• See Shemot Rabbah on Shemot 2:5, reading "אמתה" there to mean "her hand" and Rashi pointing out that if so, it should have had a dagesh in the mem.