A Grammar of Mishnaic Hebrew

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p;n^D (' chequer work'), alternately; TV^^D nxnp he read it in
alternate verses, Meg. ii. 2; BQ 37 a.
DHD (*stopping up'), undefined, unspecified. Dam. iii. i.
bbs general statement; bb3 p3Snp Vn t6 they did not fast at all,
Ta'a. ii. 6.
nriK n?a in one da/ (name of measure, Isa. v. 10)—in one
stroke, at once, Hul. ii. 3.
2. Prepositions.
300. MH prepositions are all of Heb. origin. They include
{a) BH prepositions preserved in their old significance; {d) BH
nouns or other forms turned by MH into prepositions, e. g. HDn
wrath : HOHD through the fury of, the energy, or activity of—
through, by; "b t^TP preceding, before; so '^y^V; 33 by
upon the back of, upon; njD by on the portion of, for the
advantage of, for the sake of, on condition, in order that; so
name, subject, and its various combinations.
The following BH prepositions have been lost in MH:
( = Dy), bb??, n^3y3, nya, b^D, |yp|) and fS (Aram. p9).
301. "^^riK the back, is used as a prepos. in the dual D^^l^nt^
(§ 293), in the sense of * behind', corresponding to (below).
]r\'F\f n^hK behind both. Mid. v. 4; ^1 n'inK behind his master,
opposed to 131 naja Yo. 37 a. With prefixes "b, " O : n l n ^ b
behind him, Kil. v. 7; inninxb behind them, ib. 9; ' ^ n N O
behind the wall^ San. vii. 10; I'^inXD Git. viii. 2; DH^inKD So.
viii. 6.
•^ntjt, n n K with suffixes. Of time, after: rfvn -IHK after mid­
night, pes. X. 8; .T^O V-jn^ after Moses, So. v.' 4 ; f n n n « after
them, Rer. vi. 8. With prefix:. jOt "^nsb after the time, afterwards,
•AZ i. I ; ni^n nntcb after midnight, Z«b. ix. 6; D n n n x b after
them, 'AZ i. 2; TOfejib after it, opposed to n^3QbD before it.
•Er. iii. 6.