Aramaic Annotations: Pt.

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1. Here is a table showing Nominal Inflection in the sublinear (Tiberian pointing)

and supralinear (Babylonian pointing) forms. This is an adapted and modified
form, from a handout provided in my Aramaic course taken with Dr. John A.
Cook.

Aramaic Nominal Inflection Table

© 2010 T. Michael W. Halcomb
States Masculine Feminine
Pointings Tiberian Babylonian Tiberian Babylonian
b+2 )b2+2
Absolute
Singular ‫טָב‬ ‫ָטבָא‬
b+2 tb0+2
Construct
‫טָב‬ ‫ָטבַת‬
)b2+2 )t2b+2
Emphatic/
Determined ‫ָטבָא‬ ‫ָטבְתָ א‬
NybL+2 Nb2+2
Absolute
Plural ‫ָטבִין‬ ‫ָטבָן‬
yb4+2 tb2+2
Construct
‫ָטבֵי‬ ‫ָטבָת‬
)yDb0+2 )t2b2+2
Emphatic/
Determined ‫ָט ַביּ ָא‬ ‫ָטבָתָ א‬
Tips:
1) Note that all of the initial consonants have a qamets beneath or over them. The
way I distinguish a Babylonian qamets from a Babylonian patah/segol is to
remember that like a “comet” the “qamets” shots downard. This leaves the
patah/segol, which points upward.
2) Remember what Absolute, Construct and Emphatic (Determined) represent and
recall the acronym ACE:
a. Absolute: Basic form of noun
b. Construct: Definite noun
c. Emphatic: Relationship of noun to another noun
3) Parsing: The way to parse, for example if you saw ‫ ָט ַביּ ָא‬in a sentence and
wanted to parse it, you’d say that it is:

Nominal Parsing Table Key

(Inflected) Word Gender Person State Root
Masculine Plural Emphatic
‫ָט ַביּ ָא‬ ‫טָב‬