שְׁמֵהּ · לֵהּ · אֲבָהָתִי · לִי · מִנָּךְ · בְהוֹן
ORIGINALBA-006
Biblical Aramaic · Pronouns and Reference
Person endings on nouns and prepositions
BA-006Biblical AramaicAramaic of Daniel and Ezra
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST
שְׁמֵהּ · לֵהּ · אֲבָהָתִי · לִי · מִנָּךְ · בְהוֹן
Pedagogical transliterationshemeh · leh · avahati · li · minnakh · vehon
Plain meaninghis name · to/for him · my fathers · to/for me · from you · in/against them
Pointing follows Miqra according to the Masorah (MAM). Cantillation is omitted on the lesson card for visual focus; the underlying evidence retains the complete source reading. Transliterations are pedagogical aids, not replacements for the source.WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
Person endings on nouns and prepositions
Biblical Aramaic attaches pronominal suffixes to nouns and prepositions. In שְׁמֵהּ, the suffix marks ‘his’; in אֲבָהָתִי, it marks ‘my.’ Prepositions work the same way: לֵהּ is ‘to/for him,’ לִי is ‘to/for me,’ מִנָּךְ is ‘from you’ (masculine singular in context), and בְהוֹן is ‘in/against them.’ The source phrase, not a guessed unpointed form, controls the analysis.
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Keep the form, reading, and meaning together.
shemeh · leh · avahati · li · minnakh · vehon
READINGPedagogical reading guide
his name · to/for him · my fathers · to/for me · from you · in/against them
MEANINGBiblical Aramaic
שְׁמ + ֵהּ → his name · אֲבָהָת + ִי → my fathers · ל + ֵהּ → to him · ל + ִי → to me · מִן + ָךְ → from you · ב + הוֹן → in them
EXAMPLES
Examples supplied by the approved curriculum.
Daniel 2:20 — לֶהֱוֵא שְׁמֵהּ — ‘may his name be’ · Daniel 2:23 — אֱלָהּ אֲבָהָתִי — ‘God of my fathers’ · Daniel 2:23 — יְהַבְתְּ לִי — ‘you gave me’ · Daniel 6:25 — שְׁלִטוּ בְהוֹן — ‘they overpowered them’
SOURCE REFERENCE
Daniel 2:20; 2:23; 6:25
APPROVED STUDY LAYERS
Source-specific guidance from the curriculum.
Learning objective
Separate a noun or preposition from its attached person suffix and recover the person, gender, and number encoded by the ending.
Morphology and syntax
OSHB marks the cited suffixes as Sp3ms, Sp1cs, Sp2ms, and Sp3mp respectively.
Dialect boundary
Biblical Aramaic of Daniel and Ezra. Later Targumic, Jewish Babylonian, and Zoharic forms are not imported into this lesson.
Practice
Segment שְׁמֵהּ, אֲבָהָתִי, מִנָּךְ, and בְהוֹן. State what each suffix contributes.
Answer key
שְׁמֵהּ = שְׁם + 3ms, ‘his name’; אֲבָהָתִי = noun + 1cs, ‘my fathers’; מִנָּךְ = מן + 2ms, ‘from you’; בְהוֹן = ב + 3mp, ‘in/against them.’
Source notes
The MAM reading text and OSHB tokenization agree on the cited suffix-bearing forms.
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