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 plur. by the termination, as in Biblical Aramaic. Nöldeke ( 38 [1884], p. 411) referred doubtfully to the textual readings in, , , , , where the Masora uniformly inserts the termination û, and to in the Samaritan Pentateuch, , , ,. In his, p. 19, however, he observes that the construction of a fem. plural with the 3rd sing. fem. is not unexampled, and also that is often found as a mistake for. On the other hand Mayer Lambert (, Paris, 1891, p. 6 ff.) explains all these Kethîbh, as well as, (?), and (against Nöldeke)  (where  is undoubtedly the article belonging to the next word),  (where the   requires the marginal reading), also , , , , as remains of the 3rd fem. plur. in. The form was abandoned as being indistinguishable from the (later) form of the 3rd fem. sing., but tended to be retained in the perfect of verbs, as  six times in the above examples.

5. The afformatives, , , are generally toneless, and the forms with these inflexions are consequently  (, &c.); with all the other afformatives they are. The place of the tone may, however, be shifted: (a) by the (–v), whenever a vowel which has become vocal Šewâ under the second stem-consonant is restored by the ; as  for  ( for ), and  for  ( for ; (b) in certain cases after  of the  (see ).

6. Contraction of a final with the  of the afformative occurs e.g. in , &c.; cf. , &c., in the ''Perf. Poʿel''; in the  of ;, &c., in the  of. Contraction of a final with the afformative  occurs in  ; in Niph., cf. ; in Hiph. ; with the afformative in the  ; , where with Baer and Ginsburg  is to be read, according to others  (cf. in Polel  ), but certainly not  with the Mantua ed., Opitius and Hahn; with  in the ''Imperat. Hiph.'',.

F. Prätorius, ‘''Ueber den sog. Inf. absol. des Hebr.,'' ’in 1902, p. 546 ff.

1. The Infinitive is represented in Hebrew by two forms, a shorter and a longer; both are, however, strictly speaking, independent nouns. The shorter form, the Infinitive construct (in Qal, sometimes incorrectly ), is used in very various ways, sometimes in connexion with pronominal suffixes, or governing a substantive in the genitive, or with an accusative of the object (§ 115), sometimes in connexion with prepositions , and sometimes in dependence upon substantives as genitive, or upon verbs as accusative of the object. On the other hand, the use of the longer form, the (in Qal, sometimes also , obscured from original qăṭâl), is restricted to those cases in which it emphasizes