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.

3. The Part. fern. is commonly, by contraction, rSth, seldom taxb
Cant. viii. 10, and defectively written rni' (from S2) Deut. xxviii. 57.
In the forms ts rtih 1 Sam. xiv. 33, and ltIh Neh. vi. 8, the vowel is drawn
back in the manner of the Syriac.
4. The K sometimes falls away, as in >'t. Num. xi. 11, 'nr n Job
xxxii. 18. Niph. tatn=. ye are defiled Lev. xi. 43. Hiph. rn, Jer
xxxii. 35.
See more in the Remarks on verbs,qb, No. VI.
SECT. 74.
VERBS r,5. E. g. ah to reveal. Parad. P.
These verbs, like those 'h (~~ 68, 69), embrace two different
classes of the irregular verb, viz. 5 and I', which in Arabic and
specially iEthiopic are clearly distinguished. But in Hebrew the
original l and I have passed over into a feeble: (~ 23, 3), in all
those forms which end with the third radical, and which hence
are called verbs ib. E. g.. S; for nt5 he has revealed; tit for
*15 he has rested. By far the greater number, however, of
these verbs are originally if; only a few forms occur of verbs 15.
The two classes are therefore less prominently distinguished than
verbs I' and iD.
A true verb 15 is Mn to be at rest, whence nB, Part. be, and the
derivative r;5. rest; yet in the Fut. it has. ~^ (with Yodh). In rnl
(Arab. )::) to answer, and,MV (Arab. )::) to suffer, to be oppressed, are
two verbs originally distinct, but with the same form in Hebrew (see Gesenius's Lex. art. h s). In Syriac the intermingling of these forms is carried
still farther, verbs Ms also being confounded with those Mi, i. e. with the
two classes;b and;5 of the Arabic.
Wholly different are those verbs whose third stem-letter is a consonantal
n (distinguished by Mappiq); e.g.:N. They are inflected throughout
like verbs Lamedh guttural. It is certain, however, that some verbs,i
originated in verbs with final In, this letter having lost its original strong
and guttural sound, and become softened to afeeble t, e. g.,nM, Arab.,nna to be blunt. Hence it is that verbs i91 are often related to those tlb
for which the verb h` may be assumed as an intermediate form, e. g. ntrp
and ntr to be hard; hnr properly = nr to be open.
The grammatical structure of these verbs (which Paradigm
P exhibits) is as follows:
1. The original Yodh or Vav, in all forms which end with
the third radical, gives place to 'i as a vowel-letter and representing the final vowel; which is the same in each form through
all the conjugations, namely,