[Mesorah] Feminine plural imperative

[elazar teitz via Mesorah]

     Could it be that the nun suffix is for a command, while the "na" is
for a request (as in "ts'ena urena" and "leichna shovna" (i.e., as though
it were written "ts'en na")?

EMT

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Zev Sero via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> What is the standard Biblical suffix for the feminine plural imperative?
> -n, or -na?   I had always thought it was -na, as in "ts'ena ur'ena", and
> that "kiren lo" in last week's parsha is an exception.  But someone pointed
> out to me that there's also "vahamiten" in the same parsha, and claimed
> that in the language of the Chumash this is the standard form, but it had
> changed by the time Shir Hashirim was written.  Can anyone shed light on
> this?
>
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