[k] 5. Finally, a strongly-marked peculiarity of verbs ל״ה is the rejection of the ending ־ֶה in forming the jussive and the imperfect consecutive. This shortening c curs in all the conjugations, and sometimes also involves further changes in the vocalization (see o, y, bb, gg). Similarly, in some conjugations a shortened imperative (cf. § 48 k) is formed by apocope of the final ־ֵה (see cc, gg).
[l] 6. The ordinary form of the imperfect with the ending ־ֶה serves in verbs ל״ה to express the cohortative also (§ 48 c); cf. Gn 126, 218, 2 Ch 2517, &c. With a final ־ָה there occur only: in Qal, אֶשְׁעָה ψ 119117, אֶֽהֱמָ֑יָה (with the י retained, see below, u) ψ 774; and in Hithpaʿēl וְנִשְׁתָּ֫עָה Is 4123 (with Ṭiphḥa, therefore in lesser pause).
Remarks.
I. On Qal .
[m] 1. The older form of the fem. of the 3rd sing. perf. גָּלָת, mentioned above, under i (cf. § 74 g), is preserved in עָשָׂת (before א) Lv 2521 (cf. 2 K 937 Kethîbh)[1]; likewise in Hiphʿîl הִרְצָת (before א) Lv 2634; הֶלְאָ֑ת Ez 2412; and in Hophʿal הָגְלָת (before יְ) Jer 1319.—The 2nd sing. fem. is also written ־ִיתְ; thus in the textus receptus וְהָיִיתְ 2 S 142, and always in Baer’s editions (since 1872), as in most other verbs; חָזִיתְ and גִּלִּיתְ Is 578; עָשִׂיתְ Jer 223, Ez 1648, &c. (so וְהוֹצֵאתְ 1 K 1713 from יָצָא). In the 3rd pers. plur. the tone, instead of keeping its usual place (גָּלוּ֫, &c.), is retracted in ψ 3720, כָּ֫לוּ, both on account of the pause and also in rhythmical antithesis to the preceding כָּלוּ֫; also in Is 168 תָּעוּ (according to Delitzsch for the sake of the assonance with נָגָ֫עוּ); and in Jb 241 חָ֫זוּ.—On the tone of the perfect consecutive see § 49 k.
[n] 2. The infin. absol. frequently has וֹ (probably a survival of the older orthography) for ־ֹה, e.g. הָיוֹ Gn 1818; עָשׂוֹ Jer 418, &c., Ez 3111; קָנוֹ 2 S 2424; רָאוֹ Gn 2628, Is 69 (cf. 1 S 612), &c., beside רָאֹה. The form שָׁתוֹת Is 2213 (beside שָׁתוֹ in the same verse) appears to have been chosen on account of its similarity in sound to שָׁחֹט; so in Is 4220 Qerê and Ho 104, אָלוֹת (unless it is a substantive, oaths) and כָּדֹת; cf. also עָרוֹת Hb 313.—Conversely, instead of the infinitive construct גְּלוֹת such forms are occasionally found as גְּלֹה or גְּלוֹ, cf. רְאֹה Gn 4811; קְנֹה Pr 1616; עֲשׂה Gn 5020, ψ 1013, also עֲשׂוֹ Gn 3128 (cf. Pr 314), and even with the suffix הוּ the very remarkable form עֲשׂ֫הוּ Ex 1818.[2]—The feminine form רַֽאֲוָה (for דְאוֹת) Ez 2817, analogous to nouns like גַּֽאֲוָה (cf. § 45 d), is strange, but הֱיֵה as infin. Ez 2115 is quite inexplicable.—The forms הֹגוֹ and הֹרוֹ Is 5913 are perhaps to be regarded with Barth, Nominalbildung, § 51 a, as infinitives absolute of the passive of Qal (see above, § 53 u), not of Pôʿēl.—The 2nd sing. masc. imperative וֶחְֽיֶה occurs in the principal pause in Pr 44 and 72; but
