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 and he took away,. The 1st sing. of the commonly has the form , or, more often, defectively  , less frequently the form  .—For   (after ) and in verse 3, read  from , on the analogy of  : similarly in   instead of.

In the the tone is moved backwards before a following tone-syllable, but without a shortening of the vowel of the final syllable; e.g.  ;  ; cf. , and acc. to Baer  (ed. Mant., Ginsb. ), always in principal pause; on the  with, cf. γ.—As Pôlal cf. .

As  occurs in close connexion, ; cf..

Peculiar contracted forms of Pôlēl (unless they are transitives in ) are,  ,   for , &c. [but read,  or , and ]; also  , for .—In   appears to have arisen from the Pilpel , the ă after the loss of the  having been lengthened to ā, which has then been obscured to ô.—For the strange form  , which cannot (according to ) be explained as a  with the  omitted, read.

IV. In General.

8. The verbs are primarily related to the verbs  (§ 67), which were also originally biliteral, so that it is especially necessary in analysing them to pay attention to the differences between the inflexion of the two classes. Several forms are exactly the same in both, e.g. and  with, the whole of , the Piʿlēl of verbs , and the  of verbs ; see. Owing to this close relation, verbs sometimes have forms which follow the analogy of verbs, e.g.   (from , as if from ) ;    (for  from , as if from ). The same explanation equally applies to  for  (cf. § 67 dd) =  from, and   (for );   and  verse 15;   ;  ; Hiphʿîl perfect   for  (cf. ), which is for  from. On the other hand the imperfects  (unless it be intended for, cf. ) and  , are to be regarded according to , simply as rhythmically shortened forms of  and.

9. In common with verbs  verbs  sometimes have in  and  the quasi-Aramaic formation, by which, instead of the long vowel under the preformative, they take a short vowel with Dages̆ forte in the following consonant; this variety is frequently found even along with the ordinary form, e.g., imperfect  (also , ); , imperfect  (from ), also    (on  cf. ); sometimes with a difference of meaning, as , but  ( ,   ;  , plur. ) to set down; for  (Baer, Ginsburg )  (which at any rate could only be explained as an isolated passive of  on the analogy of the biblical Aramaic  ) we should probably read  with