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 God and. In  and  are strange;  has  and.

Of the remaining examples explains itself; the direct connexion of the attribute with its substantive is broken by the insertion of. In, Hag. 1:4 (as Wellhausen says, a good instance of a Hebrew adjective in the stative form = ),, (?) the substantive is also (see above) determined by a suffix, and consequently the attribute is less closely attached; the same applies to , , , , except that in these passages the omission of the article before , ,  may at the same time be due to considerations of euphony (as also in  before ,  before , 28:4,  before , 21:19 before ). In f.  and  ( after a determinate substantive), the attribute again, being a numeral, is determinate in itself (see above, x); in  the  prevents the use of the article; finally, in   and  are to be read, as in   for, in 22:26  for ; in  omit , and in  omit. Without any apparent reason the article is omitted in and 11:31.

2. When, as in, the article is omitted from both substantive and demonstrative, and in , the demonstrative even precedes (=), this is obviously due in both cases to a radical corruption of the text (not only in the words quoted). In  is either in apposition to the independent demonstrative  (= this our bread, &c.), as in verse 13  is to, or they are complete sentences, this is our bread, &c. So also in  (= that [iste] Moses, &c.), and in   are to be taken in apposition to. On and  cf. .

Brockelmann,, i. 475.

When a genitive, determined in any way, follows a, it also determines the , which, according to , is always in the construct state. Moreover, every pronominal suffix attached to a substantive is, according to, to be considered as a genitive determinate by nature. An independent genitive may be determinate—

(a) By its character as a proper name (according to ), e.g..

(b) By having the article, e.g. (prop. the man of the war) the soldier (but , a soldier);