[Mesorah] Poetic yud at the end of words

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Tue May 11 08:14:14 PDT 2010


Zev Sero wrote:
> In the first two chapters of Hallel we have "hamagbihi", "hamashpili",
> "mekimi", "lehoshivi", "moshivi", "chuli", "hahofchi".   What is this
> grammatical form?  Does the extra yud affect the meaning in any way?
> Does this form appear anywhere else?

Correction: "Chuli" is not in this series; it's a second person
imperative, addressed to "aretz".  But my question stands for the others.

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