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  (thorough) knowledge;   and   (full) confidence;  (abundant) blessing, ;  (exceptional) strength, ;   (very) wickedness;   (greatly) beloved; , &c.(fierce) wrath;   (utter) contempt;  (real) help, , &c.;   (an important) vision; ; ;  (complete) vengeance, , &c.;  and  (thick) darkness;  (close) hiding-place; ;   fatness;  (complete) aridity; ; ; ;  and ; ;   rest, refreshment;   tumult. Probably also (heartfelt) love, ;  (extreme) bitterness, ;  (base) deceit, ;  (true) righteousness,, &c.;  (the highest) joy,. On the other hand, (, &c.) can hardly be a plural (=the essence of wisdom, or wisdom personified), but is a singular (see ).

A further extension of this plural of amplification occurs according to P. Haupt’s very probable suggestion ( Proverbs, p. 40, line 50, &c.) in (of the Nile, generally ),  (though with the predicate in the plural), , , but in ,  the usual explanation, arms or channels of the Nile, can hardly be avoided; also in   of the ocean, which encircles the earth, 137:1 of the great river, i.e. the Euphrates, but in   is evidently a numerical plural.—In   (acc. to P. Haupt=the great king) is very doubtful. In  the second  is evidently due to dittography, since  follows.

The summing up of the several parts of an action is expressed in, , (prop. filling, sc. of the hand) ordination to the priesthood, , ,  (of a seal, &c.); , , ;  (prop. no doubt, warm compassion) consolation, ,   (restless) tossing to and fro,  , ; perhaps also  , , &c., if it means the playing on stringed instruments, and   bribery, unless it be a plural of number.

Of (c): the pluralis excellentiae or maiestatis, as has been remarked above, is properly a variety of the abstract plural, since it sums up the several characteristics belonging to the idea, besides possessing the secondary sense of an intensification of the original idea. It is thus closely related to the plurals of amplification, treated under, which are mostly found in poetry.