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The construct state, which, according to, primarily represents only the immediate government by one substantive of the following word (or combination of words), is frequently employed in rapid narrative as a connecting form, even apart from the genitive relation; so especially—

(1) Before prepositions, particularly in elevated (prophetic or poetic) style, especially when the nomen regens is a participle. Thus before, , , , f.; in participles, , , , , and especially often when with a suffix follows the participle, e.g.  ; cf. , ;  (unless  should be read); 98:7. —Before, (but read probably );  (before ); , ,  (before ); , ; in participles, , ; before  with an infinitive, , and again before  with a suffix, , , ; —before , , ; —before  (with), ; —before , ,  (a participle); , , ; —before , ; —before , ; —before the nota accus. , ; —before a locative (which in such cases also serves as a genitive),,.

(2) Before wāw; copulative, e.g. ; but,  35:2, and  51:21 may be cases of an intentional reversion to the old feminine ending ath, in order to avoid the hiatus.

(3) When it governs the (originally demonstrative) pronoun ; so especially in the combination, , , the place where (prop. of that in which) Joseph was bound; cf. ; or, 33, , , , ,. We should expect, , as in , &c., at the place which..., cf. § 138; but is treated as a nomen rectum instead of as an attribute.