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 verb ; after ,  (==to the place where); after    by them that asked not for me...  them that sought me not;  that which they have not seen, but the text is hardly correct; after  , cf. ; after .—A noun-clause follows  in. An analogous instance in Aramaic is to one whose name was Sheshbazzar [so in the papyri, see the Lexicon, p. 1116a].

1. The statement of the particular circumstances under which a subject appears as performing some action, or under which an action (or an occurrence) is accomplished, is made especially (apart from relative clauses, see § 155) by means of noun-clauses connected by with a following subject (see further on this kind of circumstantial clause in ), and by verbal-clauses (see ). Very frequently, however, such statements of the particular circumstances are subordinated to the main clause by being simply attached, without, either as noun-clauses, sometimes extremely short (see c), or as verbal-clauses (see d–g).

Rem. Among relative clauses of this kind the commonest are the various noun-clauses, which are most closely subordinated to a preceding substantive without, e.g. ; also statements of weight, ; of name, (also introduced by  , , &c., or  , , &c.); of a condition of body, , and others.—Noun-clauses which begin with  and the predicate have a somewhat more independent character than those introduced by  and the subject (, &c.). The former, however, are also to be regarded as circumstantial clauses, in so far as they describe a state which is simultaneous with the principal action; thus I will not be an healer, ;  ;,. Cf. also the instances in of  followed by a participle, as, &c.

2. Characteristic examples of circumstantial noun-clauses are and pitched his tent  with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east;,  through the heart of Absalom,  while he was yet alive; ,  (cf. ), , , ; with the predicate preceding, e.g. , .—In  a noun-clause serves to announce a state in the future.—We may also include here certain set phrases, as  (prop. while face was turned towards face), , , ,