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forms, only when formative syllables are added, and then
much less frequently than in Heb. ; e. g. ~ ~ fralp 5 a%?, 3
I'~u? : 7 from $up, .*r Y r:. ~ ? Q from 5?.10, . :- 17$Q$ i m Sy9*
The vowels most frequently omitted are 'Pattab TS&
-
and Hhireq.
d Finally, vowels are inserted; (1) When two c om
nants would otherwise stand together without a vowel in
the be$nibg of a syllable; as 55: from 5~?, ~??2$
from 75a. .. . The vowel most commo~ly employed in such
cases to facilitate pronunciation is Hhireq. But when the
following cornonant is a guttural, and has a composite Sheva,
the preceding consonant takes the short vowel corresponding
with this Sheva ; as YJYI .r -:- , lbY$ .-(2) In
cases like j?.l?q Ez. R 18, n>-)nn Ez. i:::ia, instead
-: TIT
of j7733n. .-: -l na$jnn ; where three consonants would come
: r: r:
together, in the beginning of a syllable, without a vowel.
Note. In case (1) the inserted vowel regularly belongs to the first
of the two consonants which would have been without vowels. In the
later Targums, a practice somewhat different prevails to considerable
extent. Instead of a short vowel under the first consonant, a &ng vow-
el appears under the second; e. g. %!? instead of 'In82 Gen. 3: 1.
Ps. Jon. et pasaim. N*;? instead of N*:? Gen. 3: 24. Ps. Jon.
CHAP. 11. -
PRONOUNS.
Q 8, Personal and Possessive Pronouns.
1. Personal pronouns are divided, as in Hebrew, into
two classes, separate and suffixed. The former express,
with some ex~eptions, the nominative case, and the latter
the oblique cases.
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