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 (b) An independent verbal-clause: (a) with a retrospective suffix, e.g. (cf. ); 17:15 as for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai; 26:15, 28:13, 34:8,, , , , , , , , , , , , ; with a pronoun as the principal subject, ; (β) without a retrospective suffix,  every one that mentions it (Judah) to it (Egypt), it (Egypt) is afraid.

Rem. 1. In all the above examples prominence is given to the principal subject (by its mere separation from the context by means of a greater disjunctive, as a casus pendens ) in a manner which would be quite impossible in a simple noun or verbal-clause (e.g. if it were ); cf. the French c’est moi qu’on a accusé. But the statement or question contained in the clause which forms the predicate also receives greater weight. For the same purpose other members of the sentence also are sometimes placed at the beginning and resumed again by a following suffix; thus the object,, , , (with the Samaritan and LXX read perhaps ); ; a specification of place, , , &c.; a substantive with , , ; cf. the examples in .—In a dative is co-ordinated with the casus pendens, i.e. there is a transition to a different construction.

2. To compound sentences belong also the numerous examples already treated in the account of the tenses, where the predicate of a casus pendens is introduced by the. The isolation and prominence of the principal subject is in this case still more marked than in the instances treated above; on the casus pendens with a following imperfect consecutive (e.g., ), cf. ; with a following perfect consecutive (e.g., , , , , , f.),  and mm; on the participle as casus pendens,  and .—In   follows with the cohortative; in , , the imperfect is separated by  from the ; in  as for thy hope, it is the integrity of thy ways, 36:26, , an incomplete noun-clause is appended by. On after disconnected specifications of time, cf. at the end, and,  (so far as the present is concerned) I will be thy servant, ,  (me thou needest not fear).

3. Sometimes a substantive introduced by (in respect to; cf. ) serves the same purpose as the casus pendens beginning the sentence, as  (unless the  here serves to introduce the object, according to );  (where, however,  should most probably be read);, ,  ff.,. On the other hand,, , , , , are very doubtful. The suggestion of P. Haupt (, xiii. no. 114; Baltimore, 1894) also deserves attention, that in passages like, and in , , , 19, , &c.,  is not the preposition, but an emphasizing particle, answering to the Arab. lă, surely; Assyrian lû; with it is equivalent to in short. Cf. also, , , Assyrian lû—lû.