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  • From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon AT gmail.com>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew list <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] -HM vs -MW suffix
  • Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:16:20 -0500

I've been off-list a while, but I just came across this question
<http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/14259> and figured folks
here might have some approach.

In short: Usually the suffix “הם” HM is used to indicate “them” or
“their”, as in “אליהם” )LYHM or “כליהם” KLYHM. Sometimes, though, the
suffix used is “מו” MW, e.g., Deut 33:2 “וזרח משעיר למו”.

Is there any known grammatical difference between the two forms, or is
the -MW form usually taken to be simply a poetic style?

—Joel




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