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 2nd pers. m. in pause, e.g. (thy hand), , cf. ; once  (cf. the analogous cases in the verbal suffix );    (in  also for  probably  is intended), , , ,  (corresponding to the Aramaic suffix of the 2nd fem. sing.; on the wholly abnormal  , cf. l),   ,. Also, ,.

3rd pers. (cf. ), e.g., , ,  (always with  );  ;  ;  ,  ;   , for which  is read in ;  and  , cf. ;,  ;  , &c., ;   [altogether fourteen times in the Pentateuch, and some forty times in other books: see Driver, Samuel, p. xxxv, and on , ].

3rd fem. for  (with the softening of the Mappiq, cf., and the analogous cases in ) occurs repeatedly before Beghadhkephath and other soft consonants,  (before , if the text is right),  (before ), ,  (unless , the infin. with fem. termination, is intended;  follows), ,  (before ), , ,  (before ),  (before ),  (before ), ,  twice (before ), ,  (before ), ,  (before ),  (before ); even in , a and 5 b; , , also with Zaqeph, ,  (probably), ; on  , &c., see. Cf. also .—Sometimes the Masora appears (but this is very doubtful) to regard the  with feminines as a shortening of, e.g.   for ,   for ; also  for  in  , and. The examples, however, are for the most part uncertain, e.g. in the reading is simply to be emended to, and in  to ,  to ,  to. [See also, after prepositions, .]

Plur. 1st pers. , in   (where, however,  is certainly to be read); cf. [, cf. , h], and so always, , &c [cf. ,, , ].

2nd pers. .

3rd pers. (on in  in the same verse, and in  see .l); , according to Sievers probably to call attention to the reading. , (in );  ;  ;  ; elsewhere generally in  ; finally  as suffix to a noun, only in.

For examples of singulars with plural suffixes see l.

2. In the plural masc. and in the dual the suffixes are to be regarded primarily as affixed to the original ending of the (, cf. ). This ending, however, has been preserved unchanged only in the 2nd fem. In most cases it is contracted to, as in the ''constr. st. without suffixes (so throughout the plur. and in the poetical suffix of the 3rd sing. masc.); in the 2nd masc. and 3rd fem. sing.'' it is  (cf. k). On the 1st pers. and 3rd masc. sing. see i.—Thus there arise the following