Gesenius' Hebrew grammar: 17th ed., with numerous corrections and additions, by dr. E. Rödiger. Tr. by T. J. Conant ... With grammatical exercises and a chrestomathy, by the translator.

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PART II. PARTS OF SPEECH.

is explained by supposing, that the " of the simple form was superficially
taken to belong to the stem.
SECT. 70.
VERBS '. THIRD CLASS, OR CONTRACTED VERBS Is.
The D of these verbs does not quiesce in long i or e, but is assimilated like ~. Some verbs are exclusively of this class, e. g.
Age to spread underneath, Hiph. eHl, Hoph. d; ra? to burn
up, Fut. r?, Hiph. r1.t.- Others have two forms; in one the
> is assimilated, in the other it quiesces, as p: to pour, Fut. pan
and p3. (1 Kings xxii. 35); '2 to form, Fut. ad 2_ and 2
(Is. xliv. 12; Jer. i. 5); b' to be straight, Fut. a'c and A''
(1 Sam. vi. 12).
Verbs of this class (which seldom occur) are inflected like verbs I1,
for which they may easily be mistaken by the learner. When therefore a
form has not a root It in the Lexicon, he should look for one of this class.
SECT. 71.
FEEBLE VERBS I'. E. g. D.p to rise up. Parad. M.
1. In these verbs the middle stem-letter q always quiesces;
not merely in the more usual cases (~ 24, 1) when a Sheva precedes or follows, as tl. for 1tit, but also when it is both preceded and followed by a full vowel, as tlp Part. Pass. for Dip;
Dip Inf. absol. for 5i2. Hence the stem is always a monosyllable.
'2. The vowel in which 1 quiesces is essentially the vowel of
the second syllable, which, in the verb, almost universally characterizes the form (~ 66, 2). But this vowel, in consequence of
the union of the Vav with it, is mostly made fuller, e. g. Inf. and
Imp. Mtp for,ip, Pret. tP for Mlp; yet it is not unchangeable,
for we have IIp (with short a) from ~2, and Fut. Hiph. o:.d
(from P:I.?) is shortened in the Jussive to Ap.
The verb intransitive middle E takes in Pret. Kal the form of nr (from
MrM) he is dead; the verb middle 0 takes the form of wiit (from 'it) luxit
t3iz (from tSi) he was ashamed. Comp. Rem. 1.
3. The preformatives in the Fut. Kal and Pret. Niph. and
throughout Hiph. and Hoph., which before the monosyllabic
stem form a simple syllable, take instead of the short vowel of