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 affect to be of a certain character. E.g. ; ; ;, i.e. to feign oneself rich; , to make oneself a prince;  , to act in an excited manner like a prophet, to rave. The meaning of sometimes coincides with that of, both forms being in use together, e.g. , in Qal only in poetic style, in  in prose. On the accusative after Hithpaʿēl (regarded as a transitive verb), see.

(b) It expresses reciprocal action, like, , e.g. , ; cf. ; —but

(c) It more often indicates an action less directly affecting the subject, and describes it as performed with regard to or for oneself, in one’s own special interest (cf., ). Hithpaʿēl in such cases readily takes an accusative, e.g.  and   to tear off from oneself;  (vestem),  (vincula); , to take (something) as one’s provision; without an accusative,  (ambulare);  (see Delitzsch on ); , Job ; on , see § 57, note.

(d) Only seldom is it, e.g.  she shall be praised; , , where the reflexive sense (to bring oneself into oblivion) has altogether disappeared. Cf. Niphʿal,.

The passive form is found only in the few following examples:, ;  , ;  (for , the  being treated as if it were the afformative of the fem. plur.) it is made fat,. On, see l.

Denominatives with a reflexive meaning are, from ; , from (see ).

Rem. 1. As in, so in , the perfect very frequently (in stems ending in , , , ) has retained the original in the final syllable (while in the ordinary form it is attenuated, as in , to ĭ and then lengthened to ē), e.g.  , &c.; cf. , ; with ; so also in the imperfect and imperative, e.g.  ; cf. ,, , , , , , ; , , ;  .—In ,  and , ĭ takes the place of ă in the final syllable of the stem before  (cf. ), and in the last passage before. In the perfect, imperfect (with the exception of ), and of  (as well as of Hithpô‛ēl, Hithpa‛lēl, Hithpalpēl, § 55) the original ă always returns in  as, e.g.  ;  ;  ;  ;  ; cf. and .—The ā also appears before the fuller ending in the plural of the imperfect (cf. ) in, Jb