Nestle notes Nöldeke writes the st. emph. sg. differently (marked k.), and that the editio americana prints the plural at Apoc. 6, 11; 7, 1-4; 14, 1 (19, 18).
⭐ A minimal pair with ܐܶܠܦܳܐ 'ship' below: same consonants, different pointing, different word. Exactly the case where vocalisation outranks the sense — and where a scan at this resolution is at its limit.