Footnote 11 – Are the Ebla Tablets Relevant to Biblical Research?
The long –a– in Eblaite becomes long –o– in Hebrew. Hebrew sûe_’ôl is feminine; the ending –a of sûí-a-laki, indicates that it too is feminine. The syllabic spelling sûí-a-laki permits the recovery of the original vowel in the first syllable of sûe_’ôl which was reduced to a half-vowel in Hebrew.