Further, it is strongly possible that the emphatic or asseverative lamed is etymologically distinct from the preposition, though the Masoretes do not distinguish the two.
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Asseverative
Synonyms for "asseverative"
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A prosthetic 'aleph was added in Hebrew […] and this gave a graphemic distinction between the negative and the asseverative, but the asseverative nevertheless eventually disappeared in Hebrew and other Canaanite dialects.
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Delimiting the forms which belong to the asseverative paradigm can be achieved only for some of the forms based on morphological criteria alone.
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