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 only a subsequent insertion; so also  b (cf. LXX),, ,   after  (simplified by the Masora to  );  ,   (cf. ),   (unless the article with  is to be omitted), also  , and. In read with the Samaritan ; in   might possibly be taken in apposition to ; in  restore, with the LXX and Lucian, before ; in  omit the article, as in , before.

A similar ellipse must also be assumed in the sepulchre is the sepulchre of the man of God (but most probably  has dropped out after ) and  (cf., however, the LXX, and observe that in the parallel member the genitive is paraphrased by ).—In   (verse 17 ) has been added to the original  by a redactor; cf. similar syntactically impossible additions in verse 11 (also in, &c., where the LXX still had simply ); in  the Masora evidently combines two different readings  and ; and similarly in  (where  was only subsequently introduced into the text), the two readings  and  are combined.—In , , ,  the article, being usual after , has been mechanically added, and so also in  after ; in  the second  (instead of ) is occasioned by the first; in   belongs as a nominative to what follows; in  the meaning perhaps is in the chambers, in the house of the Lord, or the article is to be omitted; in  the text is manifestly corrupt.

Of another kind are the instances in which a determinate noun is followed by a definition of the material in apposition (hence, not in the genitive; cf. § 131), e.g., i.e. the leaden weight; ,  (, both here and in verse 17, is probably only a later addition, while  in verse 17 has arisen from a confusion of two readings,  and ). In also  (unless the article is simply to be omitted) is in apposition to.

(b) Before a noun with a suffix (which likewise represents a determinate genitive; see above, at the beginning of this section). This does not apply to cases in which a (i.e. accusative) suffix is affixed to a participle which has the article, e.g. , the one smiting him; in ,  also  is a verbal suffix, but hardly the  in  for  , nor the  in  ;. For, read  as in verses 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, &c., twelve times (but cf. also the note on ).—Of the remaining examples   (probably an intentional alliteration with the eleven other words beginning with ),  , and  (so Baer, following the best authorities) , rest only on the authority of the Masoretes, not of the authors. So also in,   (previously ),   (dittography of the ), the article is simply to be omitted as syntactically impossible; the  of   is the copula belonging to the next word.