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 2. The secondary form occurs only in poetic style, and mostly for the relative, like our that for who [see, s. v.]. Like, it serves for all numbers and genders.

Rem. 1. This pronoun takes the article according to the same rule as adjectives, see ; e.g., but.

2. Rarer secondary forms, with strengthened demonstrative force, are, ;   ; and shortened , sometimes , as in , , , , , sometimes , : cf. [and LXX; see Commentaries and Kittel].

3. The personal pronouns of the 3rd person also often have a demonstrative sense, see.

J. Barth, ‘Der heb. u. der aram. Artikel,’ in, Lpz. 1907, p. 47 ff.

1. The article, which is by nature a kind of demonstrative pronoun, never appears in Hebrew as an independent word, but always in closest connexion with the word which is defined by it. It usually takes the form, with ă and a strengthening of the next consonant, e.g. , , (according to  for , ).

Rem. With regard to the in  after the article, the rule is, that it is inserted when a  or  follows the  e.g.,  (   is an exception), but , , , &c. also stands after the article in the prefix in certain nouns and in the participles  and  (see ) before,  and , except when the guttural (or ) has under it a short vowel in a sharpened syllable; thus  , ,   (cf. , ); but   (, ; before  );  ;. Before letters other than gutturals this remains without Dageš, according to.

2. When the article stands before a guttural, which (according to ) cannot properly be strengthened, the following cases arise, according to the character of the guttural (cf. ).

(1) In the case of the weakest guttural,, and also with ( and q), the strengthening is altogether omitted. Consequently, the of the article (since it stands in an open syllable) is always lengthened to ; e.g., , , , ,  , , ,.

So also, because syncopated from  (cf. verse 14 and Baer on the passage);  (as in , , , with the