pounded, yet used in the sense of the last in the compound, thus: .c. &c& ,מִן for לְמִן or עַל for מֵעַל,used thus עַל and מִן The noun ebed may also be prefixed by a conjunction, thus, y and a slave, &c. &c. It may also often be compounded with other nouns. Thus, the slave of God. In this manner the composition of significant terms, and their conversion into proper names, is unlimited: thus, 17y the judgment, or government of a slave, and made the name of a city. See Josh. ii. 30; also 1 Chron. i. 59, the 74th of the English text; and hence the word abaddon has been used by some to signify a place of punishment. We can give but a mere sketch of the grammatical formations and variations of the word ebed; aware that even such sketch, can be considered of value only by a few, we refrain from even a glimpse of its phonetic variations and peculiarities, deeming them only interesting to the advanced and more critical of the proficients in the language; but we cannot refrain from giving a sketch of its declension as a verb, for the benefit of the Greek and Roman scholar. Conjugation of the word as a verb, to slave, &c. The unusual conjugations sometimes found in the form of some Hebrew words, hothpaal, pilel, pulal, hithpalel, and the Arabic iq-talla, pealal, pilpel, and the Aramaen tiphel, and the Syriac shaphel, are not known to the writer to have an example in the Hebrew Scriptures in the word T, and are therefore not exemplified. Paradigm of the verb Ty to slave, as a 1. guttural in KAL. Praeter, singular, 3. m. 3. f. 2. m. עָבַד עברה דן : זן |