Hebrew Syntax An Outline PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...The word 1rw fern, nns is, like every adjective, placed after its noun ( 85). Still it occasionally follows its noun in the genitive (according to 80, 1), as Is. 36. 9 ins fins "a captain" ( 75, a Rem. a). b) The numerals from 2 to 10 are substantives," and as such may enter into appositional connection ( 71, 4) or genitive relation ( 79, 4) with their substantives; in both cases of course the noun is in the plural, provided it is not a collective noun, for these, having no plural, must be used in the singular: 1 Sam. 17. 17 n: in Drib STifcy "These ten loaves." It follows, on account of the possibility of a double arrangement of the words in apposition ( 71), that we have here three constructions possible: "three men" may be expressed DtKs MObtp (== "a triad, men"), or D'uKs rnsb (= "men, a triad"), or Dio: s nb(c) = "a triad of men." The second construction however is rare. Rem. a. The numerals D";?1S, C?filS, however, more resemble the adjective in that they also agree with the noun in gender: Gen. 25. 23 D"'BS& ijrep "two peoples"; Gen. 4. 19 DfflJ iB "two women." These numerals have the farther peculiarity that they admit of suffixes; e. g. DJT'3ttJ, DSnma &c. more easily than the other numerals e. g. fiDllfta; &c. 97 2) The numerals from 11--99 are also substantives, but take as a rule the noun after them in the accusative singular: " Jud. 11. 33 Tjf D"nter "twenty cities."hc Rem. a. This construction is explained by 44. For various reasons the noun cannot be regarded as in simple apposition to the numeral. An adjective qualifying such a.