"dreams" Dual is sometimes -ayem (Judean Hebrew: a′yim), šenatayem "two years", usually -êm like the plural yédêm "hands" (Judean Hebrew yadhayim.) Tradition of Divine name Samaritans have the tradition of either spelling out loud with the Samaritan letters "Yohth, Ie', Baa, Ie' " or saying "Shema" meaning "(The Divine) Name" in Aramaic, similar to Judean Hebrew "Ha-Shem" . Verbs Particles Prepositions "in, using", pronounced: b- before a vowel (or, therefore, a former guttural): b-érbi = "with a sword"; b-íštu "with his wife". ba- before a bilabial consonant: bá-bêt (Judean Hebrew: ba-ba′yith) "in a house", ba-mádbar "in a wilderness" ev- before other consonant: ev-lila "in a night", ev-dévar "with the thing". ba-/be- before the definite article ("the"): barrášet (Judean Hebrew: Bere'·shith') "in the beginning"; béyyôm "in the day". "as, like", pronounced: ka without the article: ka-demútu "in his likeness" ke with the article: ké-yyôm "like the day". "to" pronounced: l- before a vowel: l-ávi "to my father", l-évad "to the slave" el-, al- before a consonant: al-béni "to the children (of)" le- before l: le-léket "to go" l- before the article: lammúad "at the appointed time"; la-şé'on "to the flock" "and" pronounced: w- before consonants: wal-Šárra "and to Sarah" u- before vowels: u-yeššeg "and he caught up". Other prepositions: al: towards elfáni: before bêd-u: for him elqérôt: against balêd-i: except me Conjunctions u: or em: if, when avel: but Adverbs la: not kâ: also afu: also ín-ak: you are not ífa (ípa): where? méti: when fâ: here šémma: there mittét: under References Bibliography J. Rosenberg, Lehrbuch der samaritanischen Sprache und Literatur, A. Hartleben's Verlag: Wien, Pest, Leipzig. External links Hebrew Canaanite languages Language and mysticism Samaritan culture and history