Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 12/09/2003 16:00, Karl Randolph wrote:

> Without the yod, it becomes )LHM which means “unto them”. A quick survay of 
> the 100+ times )LHM revealed not once was it used for Elohiym with the 
> omission of the yod. This is using the present, but unpointed, text.
>
> That doesn’t rule out finding an extra Biblical text or ancient MSS that 
> omits the yod, only that in all the examples that we have, the yod is never 
> omitted.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
>  
A quick search of the Westminster Morphological Database revealed only 
about 50 cases of plural nouns ending in -IM without the yod, except for 
cases where there is a yod BEFORE the hiriq e.g. goyim, leviyim.

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