2013, Gregor Geiger,Plene Writing of the Qōṭēl Pattern in the Dead Sea Scrolls:
In the Mishnah (according to the Kaufmann Codex), this vowel is nearly consistently writtenplene (about 10,000 occurrences); most exceptions are in the tractateAvot.
1671,Robert MacWard,The true non-conformist in answere to the modest and free conference betwixt a conformist and a non-conformist about the present distempers of Scotland:
Yet, Sir, think you, that your Omission, must so farre charme us to oblivion, as to make us forget, that as King Charles the first, did inplene Parliament, An. 1641. under his hand-writing, ratifie the Nationall Covenant, with the explication, and Bond thereto annexed, and prior Acts made anent it, with such solemnities and concurrent considerations, as it is impossible to question it;
2011, Emanuel Tov,Computer-Assisted Tools for Textual Criticism:
The Samaritan Pentateuch reflects the trend of theplene spellings in the post-Pentateuchal books rather than the defective spellings in the Torah in the Masoretic Text.
