A manual of the Chaldee language - PubMan

Note. The principal variations of the Chaldee, from the mode of
forming the persons in Hebrew, are, that, in the former, the 2d p. sing.
Praet. haa, generally, no distinction of gender, while the 3d p. plur. has ;
and that the 3. plur. fern. Fnt. takes 9 instead of n for its preformative.
.The dormarivea of the Future (e. g. f ?) are capable of an easier ex-
flanation than in Hebrew. .
Q 12. Nbfea on the pared@ of the Regular Verbr.
I. Benenlly.
1. Forms with , aro oth writmi fully (1%) or wen with ,: , e. g.
a 1 aing. md 2 f. plur. Praeter ; as npqq Qen. & 10. (nlq??
PaenMonathan,) T Q ~ Fa. , 1: 18. Ps. Jon.
b. Pa51 and Aphel ; e. g. ?l&?& 2 K. 6: 23. qvkg Ps. 16: 2.
c. The Part. act. m Pe. e. g. nn! Dan. 4: 10,20. nl?! Gee.3: I&
Jeru. Ttarg. lap Gen. 3: 9. PseudoJon. should doubtless be read lap.
d. The Participle Peil metimes, though seldom appears in a contracted
form ; n 53'1 Dan. 5: XI.
2 Prada. The 2. p. sing. masc. sometimee an #;~Fz Prov. 23 8
25am 14: 13. The 1st pers. sing. m. sometima a&ars in the form
~>qg, Gen. 3: 10, 13. Pmud. Jon. ; or even like the 2d person; e.g.
#Fzg, Gen. 3: 22. Pseud. Jon. The 3. p. pl. m. sometimes in the
kter Targums takes a paragogic 1; e. g. 7'l.r~ Gen. 3: 7. f3npq
Pa 148: 7. The fem. sqmetimes appears ending in 1,; ae )TQ$
Bnth 1: 10. fpz 1: 19.
3. Future. Instead of the formative q the Targum of Proverbs, in
accordance with the Syriac, exhibits also ; e. g. 5711; Prov. 16: 10,
etc. Compare Dathe, de ratione consensus version. ChaM. ct &r. Prw.
Leipzig 1764. 4. pp. 16.-Instead of 19, appears ? as termination of the
3d p. pl. m. Ez. 4: 12. sap;.
4. InJnitive. The biblical Chaldee has ;17; sometimes instead of
qL termination of all the Inf. excepting Peal. Dan. 2: 12, 14. Ez. 7: 14.
Dan. 6: 4. In the Targums sometimes appears ns (without s@xea)
Esth. 1: 5. Ps. 102: 23. Sometimes the characteristic ending N, is
omitted; as 1 Sam. 26: 25. 30 8. Pael, Aphel and the Passives have
sometimes a n prefixed to the Inf. e. g. N?$E? Sol. S. 1: 7. N$~?Q
Deut. 32: 23. Jerusalem Targ. Forms like qi5q Lev. 13: 7. Jon.
-5_ihn8 Job 1: 13. ~Q~OZQ Deut 18: 10. Jer. T., with paragogio l=,
are more rare.
6 Pussives. In the later Targums, instead of ny , occurs for the
let. conj. n! ; e. g. TQpn? 1 Sam. 123: 7 ; and this agrees with the Rh biiical conj. NithpaBl, 1n the Inf. of all the conj. nn; as #?z??n
Ex. 21: 24). Jer. T. #j?\h~q Deut. 32: 1. Jer. T.