The Rev. Edward Hincks on a Tablet in the British Museum. 



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as to this vowel, they agreed with the masculine ordinals, wherever these were 

 known, and in the case of " fourth" and " second" they could be inferred from 

 their feminines. I constructed in this manner the following Table, in which I 

 have given the mascuUne and feminine forms of the ordinal numbers, and the 

 corresponding collective nouns in the nominative singular, for eight numbers, 

 viz., from "two" to "eight" inclusive, and for "ten." I give these forms in 

 English and in Hebrew, and I also give the roots in Hebrew characters. 



[shannu (for shamvu) ^30?] shanutu ^TVaiD shunnu (for shunwu) ^3tt7 Boot 12B7 



shalshu wblff shalishtu WtobtO [shuUhu ^'Si\^'] Eoot jrbc? 



[rWu 13?31] ribdHu =ira2"1 ruVu -Ism Root Sm 



\hhanshu lE'pn] khanishtu Wa7:n Ichunshu 1t''?n] K°°t ^'^^ 



[tsidu 110] [isiditu IHtD] tsicdu >\lp Root mO 



Itsib'u Wnp] tsibutu ^05720 Itsub'u ''S^D] Root S2D 



[tsimanu 130p] [tsimattu -Wap] tsumanu '\yap Root ]BD 



[^isru 



snby] 



'tsritu 



^rnipV I'usru 



TibVl Eoot ibv 



The ordinal adjective " first" is expressed by makhru, makhritu, which 

 words also express " former ;" and I believe that the distinction is this, — when 

 the adjective precedes the noun, it should be translated " first," and when it 

 follows it, " former." Examples of both occur on Lord Aberdeen's stone. We 

 have (1, 7, 8) ina pali sarri onakhri, " in a year of a former king ;" and (3, 9, 

 10) ina makhri paliya, " in my first year." I would, therefore, translate the 

 following passage with the word " former," although, in fact, it was his first 

 campaign to which Sennacherib refers. I quote, from lines 34, 35, of the 

 inscription on the great bulls at Kouyunjik : — Shu Marduk-hal-iddan, sha ina 

 halak girri-ya makhri ashkunu shilitn-su, "That Mardukbaliddan, whom, in the 

 course of a former campaign of mine, I had effected his defeat (or had ruined)." 

 This root, which is very common in Assjaian, is not found in Hebrew with 

 any similar meaning ; but in Arabic it signifies " to meet the wind," which 

 appears to have some connexion with the primary Assyrian meaning. It signi- 

 fies to come before, to meet, and thus to receive ; being specially applied to pre- 

 sents, mandattu or madattu (from ]^3, " to give"). Makhar, as a noun, signifies 



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