Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG]

This one gets more interesting as you delve deeper! Here are the 
apparent occurrences of the feminine PLURAL, to add to the feminine 
SINGULAR forms which I listed earlier:

B."YNOWT        EZK 10:2,2,6,6,7,7
B."YNOWT"YNW.   GEN 26:28; JDG 11:10
B."YNOT"YNW.    JOS 22:34 (this is incorrectly tagged in WTS!)
B."YNOTFM       GEN 42:23; 2SA 21:7; JER 25:16

Forms like B."YN"YNW. also exist, even in the same verse as 
B."YNOWT"YNW. (GEN 26:28). No women involved, so so much for that 
suggestion. I would surmise that B."YNOWT is the plural of this 
homonym of B.AYIT [compare B.FNOWT as the plural of B.AT = daughter], 
just as B."YNIYM would be the plural of B.AYIN . But I can only guess 
why the choice is made between one or the other.

Peter Kirk