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  ( and k) or in the genitive, the case of a word depending on a noun. Such a genitive relation is usually termed an improper annexion. The nearer definition contains a statement either of the material, e.g., &c., ; or of the means, e.g. , ; or the cause, sick of love; or of the scope of the attribute, e.g.  ; cf. , 4,, , , , , ; or of the manner, e.g.  (wickedly faithless).

Especially frequent is the use of this genitive to name the part of the body described as being affected by some physical or mental condition, e.g., &c.; , , ;  ; ,. Also such examples as, , where a suffix is attached to the substantive, must be regarded as instances of the genitive construction, on the analogy of , see.

Besides the construction of a nomen rectum dependent upon a nomen regens in the construct state (§§ 89 and 128), the connexion of two nouns may also be effected otherwise, either by simply attaching the dependent noun by means of the preposition, which, according to , expresses, besides other ideas, like that of belonging to, or by the addition of a relative clause (, see h below).

1. The introduction of a genitive by sometimes occurs even when the construction with the construct state would be equally possible, e.g.  ;,  (where indeed the circumlocution makes the sense much plainer); as a rule, however, this use is restricted to the following cases:—

(a) To prevent a nomen regens being determined by a following determinate genitive, e.g.  ( would be, according to, the son of Jesse); cf. ,, , (27:16), , , . Hence, regularly  (, &c.) a psalm of David (properly belonging to David as the author), for which  is used alone elliptically in , , &c. Such a case as (, &c.) is not to