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 requires for it  (or ), except in  ; cf. ibid. , Qere, and finally  ,  Qere. Perhaps and  are formae mixtae, combining the readings, &c. and (2nd fem. perf.), &c., but  may be merely assimilated to  which immediately precedes it.

The following are simply textual errors: , due to the preceding , and to be read  as in the Qere;  (read ),  (read ),  (read , as in five other places). On, thrice, in , cf. .

(b) Of the ending (always with the tone): in prose only in the Pentateuch, but in elevated style,   (= ver. 25); similarly in, , ,  (twice), ; otherwise only in , ; , ; and ,.

W. Diehl, ''Das Pronomen pers. suffixum 2 u. 3 pers. plur. des Hebr., Giessen, 1895; A. Ungnad, ‘Das Nomen mit Suffixen im Semit.,’ Vienna Oriental Journal'', xx, p. 167 ff.

With regard to the connexion of the noun with pronominal suffixes, which then stand in a genitive relation and are, therefore, necessarily appended to the  of the noun, we shall first consider, as in the verb (§ 57 ff.), the forms of the suffixes themselves, and then the various changes in the form of the noun to which they are attached. The nouns are also tabulated in the Paradigms of the flexion of the noun in § 92 ff. Cf. also Paradigm A in the Appendix. We are here primarily concerned with the different forms of the suffixes when added to the singular, plural, and dual.

1. The Suffixes of the singular are—

With nouns ending in a—