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 ; after , ; after  , , , , ; after  , ; after  ; after  .— In  the plural  precedes the numeral twelve hundred.

3. Numerals compounded of tens and units (like 21, 62) take the object numbered either after them in the singular (in the accusative), e.g.  ( in the singular, according to e, since it conforms to the ten immediately preceding; but also  ), or before them in the plural, especially in the later Books,, &c.; or the object is repeated (but only in , and the Priestly Code; sometimes even several times, e.g. , , 17 thrice) in the plural with the units, and in the singular with the tens and hundreds, e.g.  ;. Cf.

Rem. 1. It may further be remarked with regard to the order, that the thousand or thousands always precede the hundreds, &c., and the hundreds almost always come before the smaller numbers (in Kings and Ezekiel sometimes, and in the Priestly Code usually, after the smaller numbers), the tens in the earlier Books (documents J and D of the Pentateuch, in Joshua 1–12, Judges, Samuel, Isaiah, and also in Ezra and Nehemiah) before the units, but in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Priestly Code, Joshua 13–24 after the units (see Herner, op. cit., p. 73). After the hundreds the smaller number is very frequently added without, especially in Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel.

On the syntax of the cardinals in general:—

2. The cardinals are determined by the article, when they refer back (without being connected with the object numbered; cf., however, f.,, , ) to a number or list already mentioned, e.g.   (the first) is Pishon;  four kings against the five (enumerated in verse 2); cf. f., and the determinate tens in, 31 f. A demonstrative with the article may also be added to a numeral determined in this way, e.g. (but cf. also , , where the numeral and demonstrative are practically determinate in themselves). In the case of the numerals from 11 to 19 the article may stand either before the unit or before  ; it is used before all three members of a compound number (273) in.

In apposition with any determinate substantive the cardinal number is used without the article, not only when it precedes the substantive, as in (, where  is equivalent to a substantive determinate in itself; cf., , 22 , , and the passages discussed above in , , &c.), but also when it follows the substantive, e.g. , 43 f.  and ; the omission of the article may here, as in the eases noticed in , be also due to the dislike of a hiatus, but cf. also  after a determinate substantive. The fact that it is by nature determinate would also be a very simple explanation of,  f., , , instead of the more usual , and of   for.