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 The instances found are:

(a) Of the ending : his ass’s colt, ;,  (cf. the preceding ); ,  (on  cf. below Jer 4916a, ); appended to the feminine ,  (in prose, but in very emphatic speech); , ; ,  (on the retraction of the tone before a following tone-syllable, cf. ; in the same verse the second  and , see below, follow the example of , although no tone-syllable follows; cf. also  below); , ; cf. also, Jer 4916b. To the same category belong the rather numerous cases, in which a preposition is inserted between the and its genitive (cf. ), without actually abolishing the dependent relation, e.g., , ; , ; cf. also a, .—In  can only be so explained if it is a vocative referring to, but perhaps we should read  as predicate to.

Further, the Ḥireq compaginis is found with certain particles which are really also nouns in the ''constr. st., as (=) except,  (poetical for ) from'',,  (thrice in the formula ; but many take the  as a suffix here), ,. [The above are all the cases in which this is attached to independent words in the O.T.; it occurs, however, besides] in compound proper names (again attached to the constr. st.), as  (king of righteousness),  (man of God),  (favour of God), and others (cf. also the Punic name Hannibal, i.e. ).

Otherwise than in the ''constr. st. the Ḥireg compaginis is only found in participial forms, evidently with the object of giving them more dignity, just as in the case of the construct forms in î''. We must distinguish, however, between passages in which the participle nevertheless does stand in close connexion, as, ( and , also in impassioned speech),  (probably influenced by ), , ; and passages in which the î added to the participle with the article merely serves as an ornamental device of poetic style, e.g. in the late Psalms,  (on verse 8 see n), ,.

In Kethibh the termination î also occurs four times in, i.e. , , (before ),  (before ),  (before ). The Qere always