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 , if that form is to be referred to an  ; perhaps also   for. This form also commonly expresses rapidly repeated movement, which all languages incline to indicate by a repetition of the sound, e.g. ; cf. in the Lexicon the nouns derived from, , and.

As we find  ;  ; ,. Of the same form is, if contracted from  or  from the root  or ), and also ,  (but read probably ),  (in ) , &c., if it is to be derived from , and not Hithpaʿel from.

Only examples more or less doubtful can be adduced of—

5. (properly  ):, with  prefixed, cf. (denominative from ) ; from a stem, the , ; ,  (from ). Similarly in Aramaic,, whence also in Hebrew the passive participle.

6. Šaphʿēl:, frequent in Syriac, e.g. from ; whence in Hebrew. Perhaps of the same form is (unless it be from the stem ), and, cf. , No. 50. This conjugation is perhaps the original of, in which case the , by a phonetic change which may be exemplified elsewhere, is weakened from a sibilant.

Forms of which only isolated examples occur are:—

7., ; as , , from ,.

8., in , from.

9. (regularly in Mishnic Hebrew ) a form compounded of  and ; as  for, ;  probably an error for ,. On, see.

On the origin of these altogether secondary formations cf. . While quadriliteral are tolerably numerous, only the following examples of the verb occur: