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  accent, as  ;   (where, however, the reading  is also found). With a sharpened :,.

3. The 3''rd sing. fem. (=) has the twofold peculiarity that (a) the ending ath always takes the tone, and consequently is joined to those suffixes which form a syllable of themselves, without a connecting vowel, contrary to the general rule, ; (b) before the other suffixes the connecting vowel is indeed employed, but the tone is drawn back to the penultima'', so that they are pronounced with shortened vowels, viz. ,, e.g. , , cf. ;, ; , , , , . For , &c., in   is found, , , and  ; and also without the  for the sake of the assonance , she was in travail with thee, ibid. The form (e.g. ) has arisen, through the loss of the  and the consequent sharpening of the  (as in  and  for  and, cf. ), from the form , which is also found even in  (elsewhere it takes in  the form  ); so  from ; cf. ,, , ; in , always, on the authority of Qimḥi, without  in the , which is consequently always a more vowel-letter.

4. In the 2''nd sing. masc.'' the form is mostly used, and the suffixes have, therefore, no connecting vowel, e.g., ; but with the suff. of the 1st sing. the form is used, e.g.  ; in, however, with , e.g.  ;  (with ); but cf. also  with Merekha.—In the 2''nd sing. fem.'' — is also written defectively,, , ,. Occasionally the suffix is appended to the ordinary form, viz. dost adjure us,, ; cf. , and, quite abnormally, with   didst let us down,, where  would be expected. In  is probably intended as an.

5. In verbs middle ē, the ē remains even before suffixes (see above, c), e.g.,  , cf. ; . From a verb middle ō there occurs, , from  with ŏ instead of ō in a syllable which has lost the tone.

In those forms of the Qal, which have no afformatives, the vowel ō of the second syllable mostly becomes  (simple ), sometimes ; thus in the principal, , , , , , ; before the principal , ; before a secondary , ; even before a conjunctive accent,. Before ,