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  Klostermann after the LXX. In the   is intended for a. There is also a distinction in meaning between, and   (conversely, verse 2  ,  ),   , , , to be stubborn, obstinate: in the latter sense from the form  only  is found,. Other examples are,  f.;   (from , not ); ,  (see above, v);   ;.

Perhaps the same explanation applies to some forms of verbs first guttural with Dageš forte implicitum, which others derive differently or would emend, e.g. for  (from ) ;  (another reading is ), ,   from  or. Both, as far as the form is concerned, would be correct apocopated imperfects from and , but these stems only occur with a wholly different meaning.

10. Verbs with a consonantal for their second radical, are inflected throughout like the strong form, provided the first or third radical is not a weak letter, e.g.,  ; ,  ; ; ;  ,  ; ,  ; and this is especially the case with verbs which are at the same time , e.g. ,  , , ,   (on  , see ) and  , &c.

1. These verbs agree, as regards their structure, exactly with verbs, and in contrast to them may be termed , or more correctly, ʿayin-î verbs, from the characteristic vowel of the impf., imper., and ''infin. constr''. This distinction is justified in so far as it refers to a difference in the pronunciation of the and its kindred forms, the  and ''infin. constr.—the verbs having û lengthened from original ŭ and  having î lengthened from original ĭ''. In other respects verbs simply belong to the class of really monosyllabic stems, which, by a strengthening of their vocalic element, have been assimilated to the triliteral form. In the the monosyllabic stem, as in, has ā lengthened from ă, thus:  he has set; infinitive ,  ,  ,  ,   ,  .—The  of some verbs