Jump to content

Page:Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (1910 Kautzsch-Cowley edition).djvu/224

From Wikisource
This page needs to be proofread.

This page was corrected according to Additions and Corrections that appear in the 1910 edition.

only examples found have ô (not û), viz. נְפֽוֹצֹתֶם ye have been scattered, Ez 11, 20, and וּנְקֹֽטֹתֶם and ye shall loathe yourselves, Ez 20, 36.—To the ĭ (instead of ă) of the preformative may be traced the perfect נֵעוֹר Zc 2 (analogous to the perfect and participle נִמּוֹל, see below, ee), imperfect יֵעוֹר for yiʿʿōr.—The infinitive construct הִדּוּשׁ occurs in Is 25; in לֵאוֹר Jb 33, the Masora assumes the elision of the ה (for לִהֵאוֹר); but probably לָאוֹר (Qal) is intended (see § 51 l).—נַמוֹג Is 14, נָסוֹג Is 59 are to be regarded as infinitives absolute.

III. On Hiphʿîl, Hophʿal, and Piʿlēl.

 [w 6. Examples of the perfect without a separating vowel (see above, k), are: הֵבֵ֫אתָ, &c. (see further, § 76 g); הֵמַ֫תָּה (from מוּת) for hēmáth-tā (cf. § 20 a); הֵכַ֫נּוּ 1st plur. perfect Hiphʿîl from כּוּן 2 Ch 29, even הֲמִתֶּם (§ 27 s) Nu 17, &c.; cf. 1 S 17, 2 S 13, also וַֽהֲמִתֶּן Ex 1, and וַֽהֲמִתִּ֫יהָ Ho 2; but elsewhere, with wāw consecutive וְהֵֽמַתִּ֫י Is 14; cf. וְהֵֽמַלְתִּ֫י Jer 16, and וְהֵֽנַפְתָּ֫ Ex 29, &c.—In these cases the ē of the first syllable is retained in the secondary tone; elsewhere in the second syllable before the tone it becomes ־ֱ (1 Ch 15, &c.) or more frequently ־ֲ, and in the syllable before the antepenultima it is necessarily ־ֲ (e.g. וַֽהֲקִֽמֹתִ֫י Gn 6). Before a suffix in the 3rd sing. mase. (except Gn 40) and fem., and in the 3rd plur., the vowel of the initial syllable is Ḥaṭeph-Seghôl, in the other persons always Ḥaṭeph-Pathaḥ (König); on הֲקֵֽמֹתוֹ 2 K 9, ψ 89, cf. Ex 19, Nu 31, Dt 4, 22, 27, 30, Ez 34, and above, i. The 3rd fem. perf. Hiph. הֵסַ֫תָּה 1 K 21 is quite abnormal for הֵסִ֫יתָה from סוּת or סִית.

 [x As in verbs ע״ע with ח for their first radical (§ 67 w), all the forms of עוּד Ex 19 (where against the rule given under i we find הַֽעֵדֹ֫תָה with ē instead of î), Dt 8, Neh 9, Jer 42, and עוּר Is 41, 45, take Pathaḥ in these conjugations instead of ־ֲ. The irregular וְהֽוֹשְׁבוֹתִים Zc 10 has evidently arisen from a combination of two different readings, viz. וְהֽוֹשַׁבְתִּים (from יָשַׁב) and וַֽהֲשִֽׁבוֹתִים (from שׁוּב): the latter is to be preferred.—On הֵבִישׁ and הוֹבִישׁ as a (metaplastic) perfect Hiphʿîl of בּוֹשׁ, cf. § 78 b.

 [y 7. In the imperative, besides the short form הָקֵם (on הָשַֽׁב Is 42 with Silluq, cf. § 29 q; but in Ez 21 for הָשַׁב read the infinitive הָשֵׁב) the lengthened form הָקִ֫ימָה is also found. With suffix הֲקִימֵ֫נִי, &c. The imperative הָבִיא Jer 17 is irregular (for הָבֵא Gn 43); perhaps הָבֵיא (as in 1 S 20; cf. 2 K 8) is intended, or it was originally הָבִ֫יאָה.

 [z In the infinitive, elision of the ה occurs in לָבִיא Jer 39, 2 Ch 31 (for לְהָבִיא); ־ָה fem. is added in לַֽהֲנָפָה Is 30; cf. Est 2, 4 and the analogous infinitive Haphʿel in biblical Aramaic, Dn 5.—As infinitive absolute הָכִין occurs in Ez 7 (perh. also Jos 4, Jer 10).—The participles have ē, on the analogy of the perfect, as the vowel of the preformative, like verbs ע״ע (§ 67 i). On מֵבִי 2 S 5, &c. (in Kethîbh), see § 74 k.

 [aa On the shortened forms of the imperfect (יָקֵם, וַיַָּקֶם, but always וַיָּבֵ֫א; in the jussive also with retraction of the tone אַל־תָּ֫שֶׁב 1 K 2) see above, f. With a guttural or ר the last syllable generally has Pathaḥ (as in Qal), e.g. וַיָ֫עַד and he testified, 2 K 17; יָרַ֫ח let him smell, 1 S 26; וַיָּ֫רַח Gn 8; וַיָּ֫סַר