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 Rem. The collocation of a numeral with the next above it (either in the same or in different sentences) is a rhetorical device employed in numerical sayings to express a number, which need not, or cannot, be more exactly specified. It must be gathered from the context whether such formulae are intended to denote only an insignificant number (e.g., two or at the most three), or a considerable number, e.g. . Sometimes, however, this juxtaposition serves to express merely an indefinite total, without the collateral idea of intensifying the lower by means of the higher number. Thus one and two are connected by, , , , (without , ); two and three,  , and without , , , ; three and four, , –11, ,  , and with out , ; four and five, without , ; six and seven, , ; seven and eight, , ; (nine and ten, ).

III. Syntax of the Pronoun.

1. The separate pronouns,—apart from their employment as the subject in noun-clauses (cf. ) and the idiom mentioned under d–h, —are used, according to, as a rule, only to give express emphasis to the subject; e.g. ,  i.e. I myself, so also  ,  (after the verb), , ; but , ,   and none else; cf. also, &c.;  , ,  (as in 20:8, 22:18, , , , after the imperative); ;  ,  (after the verb, ); fem. ;  ;  , ;  .—Sometimes, however, the separate pronoun appears to be placed before the verb more on rhythmical grounds, i.e. in order to give the statement a fuller sound than that of the bare verbal form (cf. the similar use of the infinitive absolute, ). Thus, , and most clearly in such passages as , , , , , , , , (in solemn promises). The same explanation applies to at the beginning of sentences, e.g., , , , , ,.

Rem. 1. Different from this is the pleonastic addition of the separate pronoun immediately after the verb (according to Delitzsch on perhaps