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 3. The oblique cases of the personal pronouns expressed by means of a preposition (or the nots accus. ) with a suffix may be used either in a demonstrative or reflexive sense, as, but also to himself, e.g. and Ehud made , cf. ; so also, ; , and unto himself; , and  with himself; , and  with herself; also apparently as a pleonastic dativus ethicus (see ), ,.

Rarely, and only when marked emphasis is intended, is the accusative of the reflexive pronoun represented by the  with a suffix (this being ordinarily expressed by the reflexive conjugations  and  ); thus,, ,  in sharp antithesis to ; , 8, 10. Cf. § 57 at the end, together with note 2.

Rem. There is a similar emphasis in on  and  in the sense of their own flesh, their own blood. On the sometimes demonstrative, sometimes reflexive meaning of noun-suffixes of the 3rd person singular and plural, cf. § 91, p and q. For other circumlocutions to express the idea of self, see.

4. The possessive pronouns are, according to, expressed by the suffixes of the noun (in the genitive), which may represent either a subjective genitive, or (like the genitives proper, ) an objective genitive, e.g. , , ; cf. ,, ; ,  (cf. , &c.); 50:4, , , ,  ; , , , , , , ,. Cf. also such pregnant expressions as  (help for thee), i.e. he will send thee help;, , ,  (and I will restore judges for thee);.

When several substantives are co-ordinated, the pronominal suffix must be attached to each singly, e.g. and Esau took, &c.; 38:18, &c. In the text is hardly correct.