Page:Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (1910 Kautzsch-Cowley edition).djvu/279



Rem. 1. There is less variety of forms in these than in the verbal suffixes; the particular forms are used as follows:—

(a) Those without a connecting vowel (on the derivation of these ‘connecting vowels’ from original stem-vowels, see note on ) are generally joined to nouns of a peculiar form (see § 96), the ''constr. st. of which ends in a vowel, as, and , , , , , , , sometimes also to segholate forms ending in î'' from  stems (see , y), e.g. ,  (also  , &c.),   (also  verse 5); cf., moreover,   and similar examples with   , ,. Also in, , , , &c., the perhaps intends the singular, , &c., but the Masora requires the plural with defective ê.

(b) The forms with connecting vowels are joined to nouns ending in a consonant. The connecting vowel is regularly a in the ''3rd sing. fem. (for aha) and 3rd plur., , , also in the 3rd sing. masc., since the ô is contracted from a[h]û, and in the pausal form of the 2nd masc.'' (a modification of original ).

The forms with ē in the above-mentioned persons are common only with nouns in (from stems ), ''constr. st. (cf. ), e.g.  (from sadaihû) his field;, ; ,  (from mar’aihā''; on the  see k); but. The orthographic retention of the, e.g. , , gives to many forms the appearance of plurals; see the instances in.

Apart from these forms the connecting vowel ē in the 3rd pers. occurs only in isolated cases;, ; , [+ 12 times]; ; in  read  as in vv. 2, 25. On the other hand in the ''2nd sing. fem. and in the 1st plur. are by far the more common forms, while,  are of rare occurrence; see e.—Instead of  ( in , , , &c., cf. ,  ), ,  (with ), if the last consonant of the noun is a guttural, the forms are , , , e.g. , , , ,  (on such cases as  , see ).—With Nun energicum'' (cf. , and on  , &c., cf. )  occurs in , in principal pause.

2. Rare or incorrect forms are—

Sing. 1st pers. in  (certainly only a scribal error, caused by  in verse 6).