Verb ending in alef

[piemme]

Does anyone know why this verb {יקדישׁא}, that I think is hifil atid 3rd singular, is ending in alef ? I suppose is something related to ivrit in the middle age but I would like have a more specific answer.
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Where did you see this word? It's hard to attempt to decipher what it means without context.

[piemme]

I found a reference to Qneh Binah f. 26a.

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But where did you find this reference? That's really what I'm asking. Like show us where you actually saw this word.

[piemme]

I have found the word in "Vocabulaire de l'angelologie" of Moise Schwab, page 265. In the book is reported the list of all the names of the "angels" of the tradition and each element of the Shem HaMephorash is associated with a word of same ghematric value. In all cases the word has a complete sense and I suppose also in this case: כהת = 425 = יקדישא

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Ok thanks, that helps. So I looked up the reference in Qneh Binah, and there the word given as the numeric equivalent is actually יה קדוש (Holy Yah, the latter word is one of God's names). I suspect that this somehow got a bit corrupted in this "Vocabulaire de l'angelologie" book. The word קדישא is the Aramaic equivalent of קדוש. It could be that Moïse Schwab mixed them up, and then took out the letter ה from the phrase to keep the numeric value the same.

Hope this helps.

[piemme]

Yes, this helps and I thank you and I'll take יה קדוש as the correct interpretation.
Just two questions more:
1) When you say "the numeric equivalent is actually" do you refer to one the late editions of Qneh Binah?
2) The word יקדישׁא cannot be considered a verb neither in aramaic?

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1. The edition of Qneh Binah I looked at was this one, published in 1609 CE. I don't know anything about this book or when it was written, so I'm not sure if you consider this early or late.

2. No, there is no way to interpret יקדישא as a single word in either Hebrew or Aramaic. Though if you want, you can consider it to be the י of God's name followed by the word קדישא "holy".