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  ),  and  ; sometimes qiṭl, with the a attenuated to i, especially in verbs third guttural; as, , , , , —Contrary to    and   are sometimes found with the  instead of  and . On   (but  ), cf. the analogous examples in.

2. With the suffixes and, contrary to the analogy of the correspending nouns, forms occur like , ;  ;  (others ) , i.e. with ō shortened in the same way as in the , see. But the analogy of the nouns is followed in such forms as, , (with retention of the original ŭ), and  (read mŏʾŏsekhèm) your despising, ; cf. ; on  (for ), see .—Very unusual are the infinitive suffixes of the 2nd sing. masc. with (on the analogy of suffixes with the imperfect, ), as , cf. ,, all in principal pause.

Examples of the with suffixes are,  ;   (in,  verse 24);  ;  ;. In the of  (as also in the, see ) the ē before the suff. , becomes, e.g.  , and with a sharpening to ĭ   (see ). In the, occurs (with a for ĕ or ĭ) , but probably , with Wellhausen, is the right reading; the correction  has crept into the text alongside of the.

2. The leading form of the before suffixes  is due probably (see ) to the retention of the original short vowel of the first syllable (ground-form qŭṭŭl). In the also ŏ is not followed by, e.g.  (not kŏthbēm), &c. As in the  and  (see above, ), so also in the, suffixes are found united to the stem by an a-sound; e.g.  ; cf. .—The forms, , which are not exhibited in Paradigm C, undergo no change. Instead of, the masc. form is used, as in the.

In verbs which form the with a, like  (to which class belong especially verbs middle and third guttural,  and ), this a retains its place when pronominal suffixes are added, but, since it then stands in an open syllable, is, as a matter of course, lengthened to  (just as in imperfects Qal in a, ), e.g., ,  ,  ,. In, (so ed. Mant., Baer, Ginsb., instead of the ordinary reading ) is to be explained, with Margolis,  xix, p. 45 ff., from an original , as   from original .—In the imperative , the form used in conjunction with suffixes is not the 2nd ''sing. masc.''