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  (according to the accents); 22:23,.

(b) The adjective in a noun-clause, e.g. ; cf. verse 155. —On the other hand, in, , is either an unusual orthography or simply a misspelling for.

Rem. 1. As soon as a sentence which begins with an uninflected predicate is carried on after the mention of the subject, the gender and number of the subsequent (co-ordinate) predicates must coincide with those of the subject, e.g.  (see o above);, ; cf. also (see p above).

2. The dislike mentioned in p above, of using the feminine form (cf., further,, with the sections of the Grammar referred to there, and below, under u), is exemplified sometimes by the fact that of several predicates only that which stands next to the feminine substantive is inflected as feminine (cf. the treatment of several attributes following a feminine substantive, ); thus in , and afterwards  (but  is better taken as an infin. abs.=excitando, reading  for ); 33:9. Cf. ,, and the examples where only the first of several consecutive forms of the 2nd sing. fem. imperf. has the afformative î,, , , ( after ); on the converse sequence of genders in imperatives, , cf. .—Of a different kind are instances like, , , where (fem.) as the narrative continues, assumes (in agreement with the context) the sense of a masculine person.

3. The instances in which the gender or number of the following predicate appears to differ from that of the subject are due partly to manifest errors in the text, e.g. read with the Samaritan  instead of ;  then follows correctly;  read with Wellhausen, according to 1:28, instead of ;  read ;  instead of  read the plural as in verse 25; so also  for , and in for ; in  read, and cf. in general,, note; read ; in  also the text is certainly corrupt. Other instances are due to special reasons. The anomalies in, , (after ),  (after ), 63:4, , , 32 18:6, 26:23,  (all after ),  (after ), ,  (after ),  (read ), and perhaps  are also to be explained (see p) from the dislike of the 3rd plur. fem. imperf.; moreover, in, the plur. masc. even of a participle occurs instead of the plur. fem.—In f., after a plural subject, is explained as a case of attraction to the following singular predicate. —In