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simply IKl . When the gloss strayed into the text, the H became 

 of necessity the article, and was attached to the following word, while 

 n5^ was pointed as a segholate noun (Jl^J ' with the first vowel 

 becoming 7 in the pause). But no such form would be possible 

 from the root f11^ , nor does there seem to be any way of account- 

 ing for the form, other than the one just suggested. The proposal 

 to pronounce the name as plural, jlb^jl ^ is quite fruitless. The 

 supposed segholate noun jl^J! should be omitted from our Hebrew 

 lexicons. 



^ Budde, HolzlDger, Kittel, et al. 



