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  (?),, ,. —Cf. finally,, where the suffix precedes the genitive periphrastically expressed by , as in , where the genitive is expressed by.

Of a different kind are the cases in which the permutative with its proper suffix follows as a kind of correction of the preceding suffix, e.g. when he (or rather) his children see, &c. (but is clearly a gloss); cf. ; in read  (infin. Hiph.) or at least its syncopated form.

5. Cases of apposition in a wider sense are those in which the nearer definition added to the noun was originally regarded as an adverbial accusative; on its use with the verb and on the relative correctness of speaking of such an accusative in Hebrew, cf. and m. Owing to the lack of case-endings, indeed, it is in many instances only by analogies elsewhere (especially in Arabic) that we can decide whether the case is one of apposition in the narrower or in the wider sense; in other instances this must remain quite uncertain. However, the following are probably cases of apposition in the wider sense:—

(a) Such phrases as, ; cf. ; five thousand shekels in brass, but this might also be taken (as in d) shekels which were brass; certainly such cases as Jb 15l0 older than thy father in days, and the expression of the superlative by means of  (originally a substantive), e.g.,  (cf. also  ), and the very frequent  prop. a much-making exceedingly, i.e. exceedingly great,, , also , perhaps also.

(b) A few examples, in which an epexegetical substantive is added to a substantive with a suffix; thus,  (but it is also possible to explain it (as in c) of thy conduct, which is lewdness); cf. ,, i.e. my strong fortress (cf., however, ); ,. While even in these examples the deviation from the ordinary usage of the language (cf. ) is strange, it is much more so in, i.e. according to the context his pledge for a debt;  , i.e. their register, namely of those that were reckoned by genealogy (but perhaps  is in apposition to the suffix in ), also the curious combinations (mentioned in ) of  with a proper name , and in  with.