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 would be connected only with the plur. ( is found only in, , ).


 * with the plur., with consonantal , cf. in Aram. , and similarly in Phoen. from , also Arab. ʾabahât (fathers), ʾummahât (mothers), with an artificial expansion into a triliteral stem.

, probably for ; from i.e. not (as Aram.  shows)  (see above, on ) but  (Arab. ʾănŭṯă). So De Lagarde,, p. 68; König, , ii. 159 f. The form (for ʾišt, with  fem., from ʾišš, after rejection of the doubling and lengthening of the ĭ to ē) occurs in, , , even in ''absol. st.'' [cf., however, below,. 4, 5].—In  is found for. Instead of the plur. , we find in.

, locative, , in , ,  , plur. (but in,  without ), pronounced bâttîm. The explanation of the Dageš in the is still a matter of dispute. The Syriac bâttîn, however, shows that the is original, and belongs to the character of the form. According to Wright,, p. 88, is simply contracted from bai-tîm (as  from ,  from , &c.), and the Dageš, therefore, is lene; König, Lehrgeb., ii. 56, proposes the name Dageš forte orthoconsonanticum; on the other hand Rahlfs, 1896, col. 587, suggests that the  is assimilated to the, while Philippi,  xlix, p. 206, assumes for the plural a stem distinct from that of the singular. A definite solution is at present impossible. The incorrectness of the formerly common pronunciation bottîm is sufficiently shown by the Babylonian punctuation (see, note 3), which leaves no doubt as to the â.

usually (also with a conjunctive accent as an equivalent for, , , &c., ; even with smaller disjunctives, especially in the combination , , , &c. [ only after  and before , also in ; see Strack on ]), rarely  (,  twice, , and so always in the combination , and in the proper names  [but ] and  ), once  (cf. ) , and   , .—In  , for which  ought to be read, is intended by the Masora for the ''absol. st.'', not the