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 Mal. 1:9, Job 4:9, 1 Chr. 5:22 Prep. מן  is usual of cause or means, not personal. Gen. 9:11 יִכָּרֵת מִמְּי הַמַּבּוּל  be cut off by the waters of the flood, Ob. 9, Job 7:14. Prep. ב  (through, of instrum.) is also used of persons, Gen. 9:6 בָּֽאָדָם דָּמוֹ יִשָּׁפֵךְ   through men shall his blood be shed.

Rem. 1. More rarely the remoter obj. becomes subj. of pass., Lev. 13:49 וְהָרְאָה אֶת־הַכֹּהֵן  and it shall be shown to the priest, cf. Ex. 26:30. So Ar. can say,  u÷ṭiya zeidan dirhamun, a dirhem was given Zeid, though usually, Zeid was given a dirhem (zeidun dirhaman).

Rem. 2. It is seldom that both acc. of act. are retained in pass., Nu. 14:21, Ps. 72:19. Such impers. use of pass. is easier when the act. governs one acc. and prep., Gen. 2:23 לְזֹאת יִקָּרֵא אִשָּׁה  this shall be called woman (acc.), Is. 1:26, Nu. 16:29. Of course all acc. except that of the obj. must be retained in pass.

Rem. 3. The exx. given above show that the use of acc. after pass. is classical, though the usage perhaps increased in later style. It is common with ילד  to bear, Gen. 4:18 (J); 21:5; 46:20, Nu. 26:60. The consn. of this word in some cases is uncertain, Gen. 35:26 (Sam. pl.), cf. 36:5, 1 Chr. 2:3, 9; 3:1, 4. Other exx. Gen. 21:8, Nu. 7:10. Ex. 25:28; 27:7, Lev. 16:27. Nu. 11:22; 26:55 (cf. v. 53); 32:5. Gen. 17:5; 35:10. Gen. 17:11, 14, 24, 25 (acc. of restriction). In some cases where noun with את  precedes the pass. the את  may merely give definiteness to the subj., Jud. 6:28; and in other cases את  may be resumptive, Jos. 7:15.

Rem. 4. The pass. be heard in sense of answered is niph. of ענה , Job 19:7, Pr. 21:13. Pass. of שׁמע  does not seem used in this sense with personal subj. (cf. Del. N.T. Matt. 6:7).

Subordination Of One Verb To Another

§ 82. There are two cases — (a) When the first verb expresses the mode of the action denoted by the second. In this case the second verb expresses the real action, and the first has to be rendered adverbially. Gen. 31:27 נַחְבֵּאתָ