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 (c)  with Pronominal Suffixes.

The syllable (in Arabic mâ =Heb. ) in  (probably from, prop. according to what I, for as I) is, in poetry, appended to the three simple prefixes , , , even without suffixes, so that , ,  appear as independent words, equivalent in meaning to , ,. Poetry is here distinguished from prose by the use of longer forms; in the case of, on the other hand, it prefers the shorter, which resemble the Syriac and Arabic.

The form, enclosed in brackets above, occurs only in (in ),  only in  (in );  (Baer following Qimḥi ) only in. Cf. Frensdorff, Massora Magna, p. 234 ff.—For, Qimḥi requires (invariably or only in ?); in , ,  Baer gives.

With regard to with suffixes,  is usually explained as arising, by a reduplication of, from an original , just as , from , identical in form with  from us, from , while , goes back to. Far simpler, however, is Mayer Lambert’s explanation ( xxiii. 302 ff.), that, &c., have arisen from , &c., and that the forms of the suffixes are to be explained on the analogy of , , , .—The bracketed form , for which Baer, following Qimḥi and others, writes , occurs only in , and is there regarded by Delitzsch, Hupfeld, and others (following Simonis) as a substantive (=portion). The expression (for ?)  is very strange.— occurs only in,  ;  (so Baer and Ginsburg, following the best authorities, instead of the ordinary reading ) only in.