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 V. In General.

17. In Aramaic the and  of all the conjugations terminate in  or. The Hebrew infinitives, imperatives, and imperfects in, less frequently or , may be due to imitation of these forms. On the infinitive construct Piʿēl, see above, aa;   (in the sense of fall);  ,  (but see above, p); , ;  ; , ; ,  (the same form in , ,  );  (so Baer and Ginsburg, after cod. Hillel, &c.) I will be, ;  ;. Cf. also in  ;  (according to Qimḥi) ; in  , , in each case , beside  with a minor distinctive;  (Baer ) ;   (with ; Baer ). The fact, however, that a great number of these forms occur in and represent at the same time a  or voluntative, suggests the view that the  is used merely to increase the emphasis of the pausal form, and at the same time to make a distinction in sound between the  or voluntative and the ordinary. Elsewhere (,, , ; according to Baer also , ) the pronunciation with ê is probably intended to soften the hiatus caused by a following or ; cf. the analogous cases above,.

The ending appears to stand for  in the  in, ; perhaps, however, the 2nd ''sing. fem.'' is intended, or it may have been introduced into the text of Jeremiah from, &c. Still more strange is it in the  ; but the Mil‛ēl-tone probably points to  as the correct reading (cf. ). The  stands for  in the , , which is probably for  from , a secondary form of ; see rr. The plur. (Baer ) they made to melt,, is a purely Aramaic form.

18. In two verbs the rare conjugation Pa‛lēl or its reflexive occurs:,  (from ); but most frequently in , Pa‛lēl  not in use, whence reflexive , 2nd pers. in  and 1st pers. in ,  ,  3rd ''sing. masc. for wayyištaḥw (analogous to the noun-forms, like  for saḥw); 3rd plur. .—Instead of the aramaizing  with suffix''   read with König ; in   is still more certainly a scribal error for.

19. Before suffixes in all forms ending in, a connecting vowel is employed instead of the and the connecting vowel which precedes it , e.g.  ; in   , &c., even with lesser disjunctives, , , or with a conjunctive accent,  (but Baer ), ; cf. ;, in ,  (and even when not in  ) or like  ; ,  ; cf. also, , ,  , ,.

Only very seldom does the imperat. or end in  before suffixes, e.g.