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 (but never in the 1st sing. ; cf. ), and then the final syllable, if without the, always takes ,  (except  ).

In, however, the (except the 1st pers. of , see below) always has the form  (but plur. always , ), ; except  in the poetic portion of the book of Job, as 3:2, 4:1, &c., but not in 32:6, in the middle of the verse. The weak of  is always  and, but in the 1st sing., according to ,  ; cf. in .— and are, at the same time, verbs, hence.

Before light suffixes the vowel of the second syllable becomes vocal Šewâ, as, but .—In a few cases, instead of the ô in the first syllable an ê is found, which is due to contraction from the group  (or ) in place of ; e.g. , , from  (from );  (for ) I love, , also (four times)  , &c., with suffixes  , , &c. (but only in 1st sing., otherwise, &c., from , ); ,. The of  with  is always, for .—According to Barth ( 1889, p. 179)   is to be regarded as an , without the obscuring of  to ô, not as , since  elsewhere occurs only in the  and ; on the original i in the second syllable, see above,. For  we should simply emend ; the view that it is  (which nowhere else occurs) can, as regards the change of ô to ŏ, be supported only by the very doubtful analogies of  (see ) and   (see ), while the view that it is  (==) rests on no analogy whatever. It would be more admissible to suppose that stands for,  (cf.  for , ); but no reason has been discovered for this departure from the natural punctuation.

2. In the 1st ''pers. sing. imperfect'', where two ’s would ordinarily come together, the second (which is radical) is regularly dropped, as (for ), &c., and even   , &c.,. In the other cases, also, where the is ordinarily regarded as quiescing in ô or ê, it is only retained orthographically, and on etymological grounds. Hence the possibility of its being dropped in the following cases:—

Always in the contracted forms of, as for  ;   (but for  read = with the LXX); cf. also in