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, ; cf. ; in the plural, e.g., , , ; ,.

(c) Of, &c.: , ; , ; , , &c.; , ; , (Luther,  ein Kind des Todes); cf. . Feminine, e.g., ; frequently also , , and even simply , like the Latin scelus for scelestissimus, ,. Plural masculine, e.g.,. is used poetically of things without life, e.g., i.e. a fruitful (hill);   i.e. grown in a night;  son of the bow (i.e. an arrow); so also  = sparks, ; ;   the daughters of song, probably meaning the individual notes.

There is another use of or  to denote membership of a guild or society (or of a tribe, or any definite class). Thus or , 4, , ,  (cf. also  , ) properly means not sons of god(s), but beings of the class of  or ;   (singular in ) persons belonging to the guild of prophets;   one of the guild of apothecaries, cf. 3:31 where is to be read. Similarly  are most probably not great-grandsons but grandsons, i.e. those belonging to the third generation. Cf. also  f. Gershonites, , &c., Kohathites;.

3. Special mention must be made of the not infrequent idiom by which adjectives (sometimes also ordinals, see ) are added in the genitive, like substantives, rather than as attributes in the same state, gender, and number as the noun which they qualify; thus,, for which verse 1 has ; cf. further,, (?), 52:13, ,  (but  may be a substantive), 78:49; also the use of  as a substantive, e.g. in  b, 6:24 , &c., analogous to the New Testament phrase ὁ οἰκονόμος τῆς ἀδικίας, Luke 16:8, and the French un homme de bien. —Finally, an adverb (treated as a substantive) may likewise be used as an epexegetical genitive; cf. , ;, ;.

3. The epexegetical genitives include finally the numerous nearer definitions which follow the coustruct state of adjectives (and of active and passive participles, or verbal adjectives, cf. –l). For, while the word of nearer definition is added to the verb in the accusative (e.g., ), it may, with participles and verbal adjectives, be either in the accusative