אַרְעָךְ · אֲבוּךְ · שְׁמָךְ · אִתְּתֵיהּ · לְהוֹן
ORIGINALTG-011
Targumic & Western Aramaic · Nouns, Pronouns, and Endings
Possessive endings
TG-011Targumic AramaicOnkelos first; Western and JPA material labeled separately
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST
אַרְעָךְ · אֲבוּךְ · שְׁמָךְ · אִתְּתֵיהּ · לְהוֹן
Pedagogical transliterationar'akh · avukh · shemakh · itteih · lehon
Plain meaningyour land · your father · your name · his wife · to/for them
Pointing follows the identified Targum edition named in Source notes. It is edition-specific; forms are not generalized to all Targumic or Western Aramaic.WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
Possessive endings
Onkelos attaches person endings to nouns and prepositions. Genesis 12 supplies a cluster of second-masculine-singular forms: אַרְעָךְ, אֲבוּךְ, שְׁמָךְ. Genesis 3 supplies third-person forms: אִתְּתֵיהּ, ‘his wife,’ and לְהוֹן, ‘for them.’ Compare the bases and endings; do not treat the full words as indivisible vocabulary.
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SEE HOW IT WORKS
Keep the form, reading, and meaning together.
ar'akh · avukh · shemakh · itteih · lehon
READINGPedagogical reading guide
your land · your father · your name · his wife · to/for them
MEANINGTargumic Aramaic
אַרְע + ָךְ · אֲבוּ + ָךְ · שְׁמ + ָךְ · אִתְּת + ֵיהּ · ל + הוֹן
EXAMPLES
Examples supplied by the approved curriculum.
Onkelos Genesis 12:1 — מֵאַרְעָךְ ... וּמִבֵּית אֲבוּךְ · 12:2 — וַאֲרַבֵּי שְׁמָךְ · 3:20 — שׁוֹם אִתְּתֵיהּ · 3:7 — וַעֲבַדוּ לְהוֹן זְרָזִין
SOURCE REFERENCE
Onkelos Genesis 3:7, 20; 12:1–2
APPROVED STUDY LAYERS
Source-specific guidance from the curriculum.
Learning objective
Segment possessive nouns and suffixed prepositions in exact Onkelos phrases.
Dialect and grammar
Targumic Aramaic suffixes in one identified Onkelos witness; the visible pointing and base alternations are edition-bound.
Practice
Segment the five forms and state the person/number of each suffix. Which item is a preposition rather than a noun base?
Answer key
אַרְעָךְ, אֲבוּךְ, שְׁמָךְ carry 2ms ‘your’; אִתְּתֵיהּ carries 3ms ‘his’; לְהוֹן is the preposition ל with 3mp ‘to/for them.’
Source notes
Primary edition: Targum Onkelos, vocalized according to the Yemenite Taj , CC-BY-SA.
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