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 form, with retraction and modification of the vowel,  ; also  ,  ,  ,  ,  .—   (cf. , and ibid. also on  ); in the ,   (cf. ) from ; the strong form here, after the assimilation of the Nûn, was unavoidable. On the other hand,  is anomalous for  (the eastern school read the Poʿēl  in the ); the strengthening of the second radical has been afterwards resolved by the insertion of a. Cf. also  (elsewhere ). In, the triliteral form is found, ; in Hiphʿil, all the forms of , thus  ,  ;   ;. That the developed (triliteral) forms possess a certain emphasis is seen from their frequent use in, as in after a biliteral form.

11. The above-mentioned (see g) neglect of the strengthening in aramaïzing forms, such as and the like, occurs elsewhere tolerably often; in the   for   (cf. above, e);    (  without any influence on the form, cf. o); even with the firm vowel reduced to vocal Šewâ;   for  (cohortative from );  for  ibid. ver. 6, they purpose; following the analogy of verbs, (see above, r); from intransitive imperfects Qal,   (plur. masc. );  ; also   (for which read =) might be explained in the same way.—  for  ;   for  for   (as if from  not ), cf. , ;  ; , cf. u. So also,   (cf. ), are perfects  from  (= ), not  from .—In   (for )  ;  for   (cf. , ).

No less irregular is the suppression of the vowel of the stem-syllable in .—On the perfect , cf. .

12. Cases in which the tone is thrown forward on the afformatives (see k) are (a) in the, the 1st sing. regularly (but cf.  before ) after  , , , &c., also  ( before );  (but the text is certainly corrupt; see the Lexicon), , perhaps also ,  (though in this passage, and in , the form might be an  in ôth; see Delitzsch on ); in the 2nd sing.  (before ) ; in the 3rd plural, , , , , ; ,  , , ; , , , ; , ; ,. A by form of (, cf. ) is ,.

(b) In the (a command in an emphatic tone), , , ;  , ,  (but , ),  (thy feasts), , ;  (= ) before ,. On the retention of the short vowels ŭ (ŏ) and ĭ before, in place of the tone-long ō and ē, see above, k; on the change of the vowel of the preformative into , when it no longer stands before the tone, see g.