19.7 QI with Suffix Examples

Hebrew	English	Comments
יִקְטְלֵ֫הוּ	he will kill him	Stem vowel usually reduces (if it hasn’t already) \(V_S=O \to ə\)
יִקְטְלוּנוּ	they will kill us	\(V_S=O \to ə\)
יִקְטָלְךָ	he will kill you	\(V_S =\bar O \to O\), the MP imperfect Sufformative may be written defectively
יִשְׁלָחֲךָ	He will send you	\(V_S = A \to \bar A\)

These three verbs occur frequently with a pronominal suffix and can be difficult to identify

Hebrew	English	Comments
וַיִּתְּנֵם	and he gave them
וַיִּקָּחֶ֫הָ	and he took her/it
יְשִׂימְךָ	he will place you

See if you can translate these verbs (answers in footnotes)

• וַיִּקְבְּרֻהוּ¹²⁴
• יִשְׁמָרְךָ¹²⁵
• יִשְׁמָעֲךָ¹²⁶

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124. And they buried him - Stem vowel reduction↩︎

125. he will observe you - Qamets Hatuf with 2ms suffix, unless original \(V_S = A\)↩︎

126. He will hear you - Qamets when original \(V_S = A\)↩︎