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, the soldiers; ,  (but e.g., on the other hand, , ; , ).

(c) By the addition of a pronominal suffix (see above), e.g. my father’s house.

(d) By construction with another genitive determined in some way, e.g. . Thus in  four, and in 21:17 even five, members of a series are determined by a concluding determinate genitive.

Rem. 1. The above explains also the various meanings of (prop. a substantive in the sense of aggregate, whole), according as it is followed by a determinate or indeterminate genitive. In the former case has the meaning of the entirety, i.e. all, the whole (like the French tous les hommes, toute la ville), e.g.  (prop. the entirety of the) earth, ;, , , and cases like , 47, 21:8 where  is followed by a singular participle with the article. On the other hand, before an indeterminate genitive is used in the more indefinite (individualizing) sense of of all kinds, any (cf. tout homme, à tout prix), or distributively each, every, e.g.  (kind of) tree, ; cf. 4:22, 24:10, ;, ; ,.

It is, however, to be observed—

(a) That the article may in this case also (see ) be omitted in poetic style, although the substantive is to be regarded as determinate, e.g. (the) tables,.

(b) That the meaning every is frequent even before singulars used collectively; afterwards the idea of quisque passes naturally into that of totality, e.g., i.e. every (not every kind of) living thing; , i.e. all men or all living creatures (with the article only in before a relative clause, and in ); sometimes also , ; finally—

(c) That before the names of members of the human body, frequently (as being determinate in itself) denotes the entirety, e.g.  the whole head, the whole heart (the sense required by the context, not every head, &c., which the expression in itself might also mean); 9:11,,  all (i.e. the whole of) their shoulders... all (the whole of) their loins; 36:5.—On  with a suffix when it follows a noun in apposition (e.g.  , i.e. the whole nation, more emphatic than , cf. Driver on ), as well as when it follows absolutely in the genitive (= all men, every one, e.g. ), see the Lexicon, pp. 481b, 482b.

2. Gentilic names (or patronymics), derived from compound proper names (consisting of a nomen regens and genitive), are determined by inserting the article before the second part of the compound (since it contains the original