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 ing of the separate pronoun by  , , ,  , and , , ; (b) of time: , ; just now, ; and rather frequently before words denoting number, e.g.  ; cf. 31:38,, , , ; separated from the numeral in  elliptically for this, i.e. this present period, is to me, i.e. makes altogether, twenty years, &c. The other examples are similarly elliptical.

The interrogative pronoun may refer either to a masculine or feminine person, or even to a plural, e.g.  ;  ,  (more minutely,  , i.e. who exactly, who in particular?). It is used of the neuter only when the idea of a person is implied, e.g., , , ; even more boldly, with the repetition of a  used personally, in , .—Another interrogative is ; of persons only in.

Moreover, may also be used in the sense of a genitive, e.g. , , 56, 58;  , ; in the accusative,  , ; with prepositions, e.g.   (in an abrupt question by whom?);  ;  .—Similarly , ,  is used for the nominative, or accusative, or genitive , or with prepositions, e.g.  , ; why? , &c.;.

Rem. Both and  are used also in indirect questions (on the merely relative distinction between direct and indirect questions in Hebrew, see the Interrogative Sentences), e.g.  (but read  with Samar. and LXX), 43:22, .—On the meaning of  and  as interrogatives is based also their use as indefinite pronouns (equivalent to quisquis, quodcunque or quicquam), e.g., , ,  (read  in the apodosis), 54:15, , 16, ; even ,  (unless  is to be read, with the LXX, for ); so also  (whatever it be) , , , 23; cf. . Cf. also, , and   ff.,