Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG]

The following is intended to be a list (from the WTS database) of all 
the forms ending in -MOW in the Hebrew Bible, excluding cases of nouns 
and verbs ending in -M with the -OW 3rd person singular suffix. Note 
that these references are almost all in poetry.

@vqi3msX3mp     YO)X:AZ"MOW     EXO 15:15
@PdX3mp         )"YN"MOW        PSA 59:14; 73:5
@vqi3msX3mp     YO)K:L"MOW      EXO 15:7
@PpX3mp         )"L"YMOW        PSA 2:5
@ncmpcX3mp      ):ELOH"YMOW     DEU 32:37
@Pp             B.:MOW          JOB 9:30(K); 16:4,5; 19:16; 37:8;
                                PSA 11:2; ISA 25:10(Q); 43:2; 44:16,19
@vpi3msX3mp     Y:BAH:AL"MOW    PSA 2:5
@vhi2msX3mp     T.:BI)"MOW      EXO 15:17
@ncmpcX3mp      B.FT."YMOW      PSA 49:12
@vqi3fsX3mp     T.IB:LF("MOW    EXO 15:12
@ncfpcX3mp      B.FMOWT"YMOW    DEU 33:29
@vpp2msX3mp{2}  G."RA$:T.FMOW   EXO 23:31
@ncmpcX3mp      Z:BFX"YMOW      DEU 32:38
@ncmscX3mp      XEL:B.FMOW      PSA 17:10
@vhvmsX3mp      HOWRIYD"MOW     PSA 59:12
@vhi3fsX3mp     T.OWRIY$"MOW    EXO 15:9
@Pp             K.:MOW          GEN 19:15; EXO 15:5,8; NEH 9:11; JOB 6:15; 
10:22,22; 12:3; 14:9; 19:22; 28:5; 31:37; 38:14; 40:17; 41:16; PSA 29:6,6; 
58:5,8,8,9,10,10; 61:7; 63:6; 73:15; 78:13,69; 79:5; 88:6; 89:47; 90:9; 92:8; 
102:4; 140:4; 141:7; PRO 23:7; SNG 6:10; 7:2; ISA 26:17,18; 30:22; 41:25,25; 
51:6; JER 13:21; 15:18; 50:26; LAM 4:6; EZK 16:57; HOS 7:4; 8:12; 13:7; HAB 
3:14; ZEC 9:15; 10:2,7,8
@vpp3msX3mp     K.IS.FMOW       EXO 15:10
@vpi3msX3mp{1}Jm Y:KAS."MOW     PSA 140:10(Q)
@vpi3mpX3mp{1}Jm Y:KAS.W.MOW    PSA 140:10(K)
@ncfdcX3mp      K.AP."YMOW      JOB 27:23
@Pp             LFMOW           LAM 4:15
                L:MOW           JOB 27:14; 29:21; 38:40; 40:4
@PpX3ms         LFMOW           GEN 9:26,27; DEU 32:32,35; 33:2,2; JOB 3:14; 
6:19; 14:21; 15:28; 22:17,19; 24:16,17; 30:13; 39:4; PSA 2:4; 28:8; 44:4,11; 
49:14; 55:20; 56:8; 58:5,8; 59:9; 64:6,6; 66:7; 73:6,10,18; 78:24,66; 80:7; 
88:9; 99:7; 119:165; PRO 23:20; ISA 16:4; 23:1; 26:14,16; 30:5; 35:8; 43:8; 
44:7,15; 48:21; 53:8; LAM 1:19,22; 4:10; HAB 2:7
@ncfpcX3mp      MOWS:ROWT"YMOW  PSA 2:3
@vqi3fsX3mp     T.IM:LF)"MOW    EXO 15:9
@vhvmsX3mp      HAD.IYX"MOW     PSA 5:11
@ampcX3mp       N:DIYB"MOW      PSA 83:12
@vhvmsX3mp      H:ANIY("MOW     PSA 59:12
@vqi2msX3mp     T.I+.F("MOW     EXO 15:17
@ncmpcX3mp      N:SIYK"MOW      PSA 83:12
@ncbpcX3mp      (:ABOT"YMOW     PSA 2:3
@ncmscX3mp      (UZ.FMOW        PSA 89:18
@ncfscX3mp      ("YN"MOW        PSA 73:7
@PpX3ms         (FL"YMOW        JOB 22:2
@PpX3mp         (FL"YMOW        DEU 32:23; JOB 6:16; 20:23; 21:17; 27:23; 
29:22;
                                30:2,5; PSA 5:12; 55:16; 64:9
@ncmpcX3mp      (:ANFB"MOW      DEU 32:32
@vqp3fsX3mp     (:ANFQAT:MOW    PSA 73:6
@ncmscX3mp      P.IYMOW         PSA 17:10; 58:7; 59:13
@vpw2msX3mp     T.:PAL.:+"MOW   PSA 22:5
@ncbpcX3mp      P.FN"YMOW       PSA 11:7
@ncmscX3mp      P.IR:YFMOW      PSA 21:11
@ncmpcX3mp      CFR"YMOW        DEU 32:27
@ncfdcX3mp      &:PFT"YMOW      PSA 59:13; 140:4,10
@vqi2msX3mp     T.:$IYT"MOW     PSA 21:10,13; 45:17
@vqvmsX3mp      $IYT"MOW        PSA 83:12,14
@ncbdcX3mp      $IN."YMOW       PSA 35:16; 58:7
@vhw2msX3mp     T.A$:Q"MOW      PSA 80:6

It is interesting that these forms are all defined as "X3mp" which 
means "with third person plural pronominal suffix", except for the 
prepositional forms B.:MOW, K.:MOW and L:MOW/LFMOW and the one 
occurrence of (FL"YMOW in JOB 22:2. I guess this is because WTS parsed 
these semi-automatically and did not attempt to decide which are 
plural. Probably this is a case where old manual methods are better 
than modern technology. But I also still wonder if modern comparative 
linguistics can help to answer whether this suffix can really be both 
singular and plural, or if we have to look for such explanations as 
"dignified singular".

Peter Kirk



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Subject: Re: Psalm 11:7c
Author:  mjoseph AT terminal.cz at internet 
Date:    02/02/1999 18:54


After I wrote:

>"Keil & Delitzsch call this a "dignified singular suffix."  We both 
>know that it is a 3rd person masculine *singular* suffix attaching to 
>a *plural* noun,..."

<snip>

Better still, if someone with an electornic concordance could list all 
the occurrences of the -MOW ending, we could figure it out for ourselves.