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 genitive), e.g.  (see ) a Benjamite, , &c., the Benjamite; , , &c. (cf., however,   ); , ; , , &c., cf..

3. In a few instances the nomen regens appears to be used indefinitely notwithstanding a following determinate genitive; it is not so, however, in, where the reference is to a well-known fountain; 21:28, where in the original context there must have been some reason for the seven ewe lambs of the flock; the spoil found in the city; but it often is so before a proper name, as in   (unless it is the spring festival), , and frequently ; cf. also, a virgin of Israel;  a man of Benjamin; , , ; similarly before appellatives with the article (or before a genitive determined by a suffix, as in ),  three arrows;   (but see , ); , , , , 13 f., 5:13, 7:3, 8:2. On the other hand, in the titles of Psalms 120 to 134 (except 121:1, ) was most probably originally the title of a collection, in the sense of ‘the pilgrimage-songs’ (according to ), and was subsequently added to these Psalms severally.—In , sc. of the sanctuary, is a dogmatic correction of, in every place, to avoid the difficulty that several holy-places are here authorized, instead of the one central sanctuary. In also  (unless it means in the whole place) is remarkable, since elsewhere every place is always (8 times).

4. The deviations mentioned under e, from a fundamental rule of syntax, are in some cases open to suspicion on textual grounds, but much more doubtful are the instances in which the article is found before a noun already determined in some other way, as—

(a) Before a noun which appears to be determined by a following independent determinate genitive. The least questionable are the instances in which the genitive is a proper name, since these may be elliptical forms of expression like the apparent construction of proper names with a genitive, noticed in, e.g. , namely the valleys of Arnon;  , namely the altar of Bethel (i.e. with the suppression of the real nomen regens,  without the article; by the pointing  the Masora evidently intends to allow the choice either of reading  or correcting it to );  (equivalent to ),  (the LXX read  holy place); ,  (probably a scribal error due to verse 13; it does not occur in the parallel passage, ), cf. ,, , ; in the vocative, ,. On the other hand,  is no doubt