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 Rem. 1. The only verbs of this kind are: (only in the  and in ; in the , a verb , is used instead), , ,  (but see above, a),  only in  , , also  (Arabic yăbĭsă) to be dry (but   , on the analogy of verbs ; on , cf. ), and the   (denominative from ), infin. to go to the right.

2. In some examples of the the preformative has been subsequently added to the contracted form:  ; , ;  ; plur. , cf. . Qimḥi and others explain the above forms from a phonetic interchange of and He, arising from the unsyncopated forms, &c. (cf. ). It is, perhaps, more correct to suppose that the regular forms were originally intended, but that in the later pronunciation the syllable was broken up in order to restore artificially the preformative which had become merged in the first radical.

Isolated anomalies are:   with separating vowel (for ) on the analogy of verbs ;   for  ;  ( for ) ;  , either an error for , or an irregular shortening of the first syllable, caused by the forward movement of the tone. Similarly, the  (from ) is always used instead of  from ; hence also, , imperat. , infin. .—On  , see ).

In some verbs, the (or the original ) does not quiesce in the preceding vowel, but is regarded as a full consonant, and, like Nûn, is assimilated to the following consonant. These forms, therefore, belong properly to the class of strong verbs. Assimilation invariably takes place in (prop. ) to spread under; ,  ; , imperfect ,  ,   (in  also  is to be read with König; in  the Masora has rightly emended the  , which could only be the 1st sing. perf. of a verb , to the imperative  in agreement with the context and all the early versions); ,  ,  ; and probably also in the forms ordinarily derived from , viz. ,, , ; at any rate a stem is implied by the  ; instead of the anomalous   read with the Samaritan , i.e. . Besides the common form we find once  in  (from ) with a transitive meaning, beside  intransitive,. Elsewhere the