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, &c.); , 19, , , , . On  see ; on , with the accus. loci, see . On the other hand, in , according to the LXX, a verb of giving has dropped out before.

Examples of (c): fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail;,  ;  we went (through) all that great and terrible wilderness; cf. . Of the same kind also are such cases as (according to the number of your persons, for which elsewhere  is used);  (with the accus. preceding); 6:18,, .—A statement of weight is put in the accusative in.

3. The accusative is employed to determine more precisely the time (accus. temporis), (a) in answer to the question when? e.g., i.e. on the day (in question), at that time, but also on this day, i.e. to-day, or finally by day, equivalent to , like , , , , &c., , ; , ; , ;  at the beginning of barley harvest, ; in stating a date, ,  in the thirteenth year.

(b) In answer to the question how long? e.g., &c., ; 7:4 forty days and forty nights; 7:24, 14:4, 15:13, 21:34, 29:18, (for six days); 23:15, 31:17; , ; also with the accusative made determinate,   in question, mentioned immediately before; cf. ,.

4. The accusative is sometimes used of abstract ideas to state the reason (accus. causae), e.g. thou shalt not come thither.

5. Finally the accusative is used very variously (as an accus. adverbialis in the narrower sense), in order to describe more precisely the manner in which an action or state takes place. In English such accusatives are mostly rendered by in, with, as, in the form or manner of ..., according to, in relation to, with regard to. For more convenient classification we may distinguish them as—

(a) Adjectives expressing state, placed after the verb to describe more accurately some bodily or other external condition, e.g. walking ; cf. verse 3, 8:21,, , , ,  (but in 15:2  is rather a substantive directly dependent on  = he that walketh in uprightness; cf. , note);. After an accusative, e.g. ; to specify some mental state, e.g. .—Before the verb (and then with a certain emphasis),, , ; , , ,