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 retained in the tone-syllable; an analogous case in  is. Less frequently is sharpened to, e.g.  , cf. ,, ; so in Poʿlēl, , , , , and probably also in  ; cf. .

5. In the î remains, e.g.   (after  it is often written defectively, e.g.   and ofton); but cf. above,,. Forms like, , , are rare. Cf. .

6. Instead of the suffix of the 3rd plur. fem., the suffix of the 3rd plur. masc. is affixed to the afformative, to avoid a confusion with the personal ending ; cf. (previously also with a perf. );, , (where  occurs immediately after); ,  (where also  is for , a neglect of gender which can only be explained by ).—For   read perhaps  with M. Lambert.

1. The of an active verb may be construed with an accusative, and therefore can also take a, i.e. the accusative of the personal pronoun. The only undoubted instances of the kind, however, in the O.T. are infinitives with the verbal suffix of the 1st pers. sing., e.g.,. As a rule the infinitive (as a noun) takes noun-suffixes (in the genitive, which may be either subjective or objective, cf. ), e.g. ;, see and. The infinitive, then, usually has the form qŏṭl, retaining the original short vowel under the first radical (on the probable ground-form qŭṭŭl, see ). The resulting syllable as a rule allows a following Begadkephath to be spirant, e.g., ; cf., however, ;  (so ed. Mant.; others ) ;  ; before  and  also the syllable is completely closed, e.g.  ,  (but in pause  ), unless the vowel be retained in the second syllable; see. With the form generally, compare the closely allied nouns of the form  (before a suffix  or ), ;.

Rem. 1. The infin. of verbs which have ō in the last syllable of the of, sometimes takes the form qiṭl before suffixes, e.g.  ;   (but  )   (but  ),  ,  ,  &c. According to Barth (see above, with the note) these forms with i in the first syllable point to former i-imperfects.

Infinitives of the form  in verbs middle or third guttural (but cf. also  —elsewhere  and ) before suffixes sometimes take the form qaṭl, as   (and, with the syllable loosely closed.