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.

~73. VERBS g~.

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13; xxv. 5; 1 sing. with suff. 1-1if~M Judges xiii. 6; 1 Sam. i. 20; tISO in
Mhph. 1 Sam. i. 28. Comup. 1 44, Rem. 2.
SECT. 73.
VERBS MNb. E. g. tt4'm to find. Parad. 0.
The N is here, as in verbs NO, treated partly as a consonant
with a soft guttural sound (scarcely audible at the end of a word),
partly as a quite inaudible (quiescent) letter, according to the
following rules:
1. In those forms which end with the third radical, the final
syllable has always the regular vowels, e. g. M*. 4z X~ tII
N"tf but Pattach before the feeble letter N is lengthened into
Qamets (1 23, 1), viz, in the Pret. Put. and Imp. Kal, in the
Pret. Niph., Pual, and Hoph. The (,) however is mutable
(125, 2, Rem.), hence in the plural 1=
The Put. and Imp. Kal have A, after the analogy of verbs Lamedha
guttural.
2. Also before afformatives beginning with a consonant (ri,)
bt is not heard, but is quiescent in the Pret. Kal, in Qamets,
r~t' in the Pret. of all the other conjugations, in Tsere,
rI21 in the Imp. and Put. of all the conjugations, in &eghol,.
The use of Tsere and Seghol in these forms arose doubtless from thegreat resemblance between verbs X6 and r~(comp. ~ 74, 2), and an ap —
proximation of the former to the latter.
Before the suffixes 1, =, 1 the tM retains its character as a guttural,
and takes (-:); as jz'%MX Cant. viii. 1, M"I7! Ez. xxviii. 13, comp. ~ 64,2,
Rem. The reason (as in verbs Lamedh guttural) is, that those suffixes
require before them a half-vowel.
3. Before afformatives beginning with a vowel, M is a conlsow
nant and the form regular, asIN
Parad. 0 gives a complete view of the inflexion.
REM~ARIS
1. Verbs middle E, like xKv to be full, retain 7'ere in the other pe r.
sons of the Pret., as lirnb6. Instead of M$42 is sometimes found the
Aramuean form tnr~ for nbor 8ke names Is. vii. 14; comp. Gen. xxxiii. 11
(after the form. rn, 44, `R em. 4).
2. In the Inf. occurs thefm form rlit7 tofi Lev. xii. 4, for tnwnM.
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