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 since I have seen thy face; and. In the 1st pers. plur. the cohortative includes a summons to others to help in doing something, e.g.  &c., and.

(b) To express a wish, or a request for permission, that one should be allowed to do something, e.g.  (let me pass through)! let me go, I pray thee! &c.; ; so after ; after , ,  (cf. , 18, 71:1); 69:15. After.

2. The cohortative in dependence on other moods, as well as in conditional sentences: (a) In dependence (with ; after ) on an imperative or jussive to express an intention or intended consequence, e.g.  bring it to me,, prop. then will I eat;, , , , , f., 42:34, 49:1, , , , ,  ;  and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come,  (it)! , . Also after negative sentences,, 32, , and after interrogative sentences, , , ,.

(b) In conditional sentences (with or without ) to express a contingent intention, e.g.,  without  ,  (where, however,  is probably intended);  (unless  should be read), 139:8 f. After the 3rd person,  though it be dark, &c. So perhaps also  ..., but cf. .

(c) Likewise in the apodosis of conditional sentences, e.g. f. if my step hath turned out of the way ..., ; cf. 16:4 f. I also could speak as ye do, if ...! So even when the condition must be supplied from the context, e.g. else would I declare and speak of them; 51:18 else would I (gladly) give it, i.e. if thou didst require it (cf. the precisely similar  );. In the 1st plur. . To the same category belong the cohortatives after the formula expressing a wish, , e.g. oh, that I had ...,  (i.e. if I had) should I (or would I) leave my people, &c.; ; without  , ,  (cf. also verse 7).

Rem. 1. The question, whether a resolution formed under compulsion (a necessity) is also expressed by the cohortative (so, according to the prevailing opinion, in ;, , 21, 6:10, , 18 (?); 57:5, where, however, with Hupfeld,  should be read; 77:7, 88:16, and in the 1st plur. ), is to be answered in the sense that in these examples the cohortative form is used after its meaning has become entirely lost, merely for the sake of its fuller sound, instead of the ordinary imperfect. This view is strongly