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 Aramaic), e.g., ;   (in the Aramaic form, for ); from a verb , , cf. . This original feminine ending -ath is regularly retained before suffixes, see ; and similarly in stems , either in the form āth (which is frequent also in stems  ), or with the  weakened to  before the pleonastic ending , e.g.  . In  the Aramaic form  occurs instead of.

2nd  for  (differing only orthographically), e.g., ; cf. , ( which is twice as common as, cf. ); , , , ,  (so also in Hiphʿil; , , ).

2nd has sometimes a Yodh at the end, as in, ; cf. ,, (but read the ptcp. , with the LXX, instead of the 2nd fem.),, and so commonly in Jeremiah, and Ez (, &c.); see also ,. , &c., is really intended, for the vowel signs in the text belong to the marginal reading (without ) as in the corresponding pronoun. The ordinary form has rejected the final i, but it regularly reappears when pronominal suffixes are added (, c).

1st ''pers. comm.'' sometimes without Yodh, as, , ,  (all in Kethîbh), , without a Qerê; in  also  is really intended, as appears from. The Qerê requires the ordinary form, to which the vowels of the text properly belong, whilst the Kethîbh is probably to be regarded as the remains of an earlier orthography, which omitted vowel-letters even at the end of the word.

as the termination of the 2nd ''plur. m.'' for, might just possibly be due to the following  (cf., for an analogous case, , ), but is probably a copyist’s error. Plur. 2nd in  (according to others ), but the reading is very doubtful; since  follows, it is perhaps merely due to dittography; cf., however,.

3rd ''plur. comm.'' has three times the very strange termination ;   (both before, and hence, no doubt, if the text is correct, to avoid a hiatus), and in the still more doubtful form  ; on  in the Imperf. see ; on the affixed in, , see.

It is very doubtful whether, as in most Semitic languages (see, note), the 3rd.fem. plur. in Hebrew was originally distinguished from the 3rd masc.