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yt (yāṯ, yaṯ_) prep. accusative particle
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accusative particle
Common Aramaic
Dan 3:12↗ אִיתַי גֻּבְרִין יְהוּדָאיִן דִּי־מַנִּיתָ יָתְהוֹן‏ : there are Judaean men whom you appointed ; 11QtgJob 38.8=42:12↗ ואלהא בר[ך] ית א̇[יו]ב באח̇[רי‏ ; TgO Gen1:1↗ בֲקַדמִין בְרָא יוי יָת שְמַיָא וְיָת אַרעָא‏ ; PTSan 20.a:4[2]↗ למיפרוק ית יש׳‏ : to redeem Israel ; JulSok 213(103):7↗ ܗܘ݂ܐ ܠܢ ܐܦ ܠܢ ܨܒܝܢܐ݂܂ ܕܢܡ݁ܟ ܬܘܩܦܗ݀ ܕܪܒܘܬܢ݂ ܘܢܫܝܢ ܝܬ݂ܗ݀‏ : we, too, had the intent to moderate the strength of our magnificence and to pacify it ; P Gn1:1↗ ܒܪܫܝܬ ܒܪܐ ܐܠܗܐ܂ ܝܬ ܫܡܝܐ ܘܝܬ ܐܪܥܐ‏ ; JBABowl 76.1:5↗ וקטליה ליברה וחנק יותיה‏ : he killed her son and strangled him ; JBAmb2 7:11↗ אנתי רוחא בישתא ישמתון יתיכי ויתברון יתיכי‏ ; PJ Gen1:31↗ וחזא אלקים ית כל דעבד והא טב לחדא‏
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yt d_ : that which, whom
JLAtg, Syr, LJLA
TgJ Jer23:25↗ יָת דְאָמְרִין נְבִיֵי שִקרָא‏ : that which the false prophets say ; P Song3:4↗ ܕܐܫܟܚܬ ܝܬ ܕܪܚܡܬ ܢܦܫܝ‏ : for I have found whom my soul loved ; PJ Gen5:3↗ ובתר כן אוליד ית דדמי ליה‏ : afterward he begat the one who is like him
2
as a demonstrative pronoun : see s.v. yt_ pron.
Gal, CPA, Sam
3
introducing indirect objects
Gal
SYAP 26:3↗ אהודע לאומתי מא דמטא יתי‏ : I shall inform my people of that which comes to me
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as semantic patient but grammatical subject of passive verbs
JLAtg, LJLA
TgJ Jer29:11↗ אֲרֵי קֳדָמַי גַליָן יָת מַחשְבָתָא דַאֲנָא מְחַשֵיב עֲלֵיכוֹן‏ : for the thoughts I am planning about them are clear to Me ; TgEsth2 9:25↗ יישתיצון {ו}ית דוכרניהון דבית עמלק מתחות שמיא‏ : may the records of the Amelekites be wiped out from beneath heaven
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Zenjirli (Sam'al) wt; JBAmb also יות ; JLA always with long vowel, while PTA Genizah mss. distinguish between יַṯ in construct with a following noun and yāṯ with pronominal suffixes: יָתהוֹן , etc.; see the similar pattern with lwt prep.
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In Eastern Aramaic only in archaic and dialectal contexts, when quoting scripture, or with certain verbs, such as šyn "to pacify", where the semantic context borders on that of the derived nominal yt. Even in reference to Genesis some of the Syriac commentators took the usage to hint at the nominal form.
In some LJLA texts, it is also found with the subject of some verbs (our meaning 4) in a manner somewhat different from the similar occasional Biblical Hebrew usage of את, the derived nominal, or the pronominal usage. We take this practice to be ungrammatical due to scribal/authorial uncertainty as to the rection of the verbs in question.
One needs also to recognize the grammaticalization of this form as an infix before pronominal suffixes on verbs, especially in later western Aramaic dialects and (perhaps erroneously?) in JBA texts.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 246bDJBA: 544aJastrow: 602Payne-Smith: 1642Levy Ch-W: 1:347Tal Sam: 465DCPA[Schulthess]: 168[88]DJA: 55aQumran: 107

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