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 gerundial or explicative sense, Gen. 19:21, Ex. 8:25, Deu. 3:3; 8:11; 17:12, Jos. 5:6, Jud. 2:23; 8:1, Jer. 16:12; 17:23, 24, 27.

(b) The inf. as periphrastic fut. or gerundive (§ 94) is negatived by לֹא לְ    or אֵין לְ. Am. 6:10 לֹא לְהַזְכִּיר בְּשֵׁם י׳    the name of Je. must not be mentioned; Jud. 1:19 (could not dispossess), 1 Chr. 5:1. Est. 4:2 כִּי אֵין לָבוֹא אֶל־הַשַּׁעַר    the gate must not be gone to. Ezr. 9:15, 2 Chr. 5:11; 20:6, 17; 22:9, Est. 8:8, Ps. 40:6, Ecc. 3:14. There seems no difference in sense between לא ל    and אין ל    , though the latter is common in the later style; cf. 1 Chr. 15:2 with 23:26. Jer. 4:11 does not belong here.

§ 96. In the progress of the discourse, when new clauses are added with and, the inf. is very generally changed into the finite construction. Gen. 39:18 כַּֽהֲרִימִי קוֹלִי וָֽאֶקְרָא    lifted up my voice and cried; 2 K. 18:32 עַד בֹּאִי וְלָֽקַהְתִּי אֶתְכֶם     till I come and take you. Gen. 27:45, Jud. 6:18, 1 S. 24:12, Is. 5:24; 10:2; 13:9; 30:12, 26; 45:1, Am. 1:9, 11, Ps. 104:14, 15. This resolution is necessary with a neg. clause, Am. 1:9. Cf. Rem. 2.

Rem. 1. The pleonastic neg. לְבִלְתִּי ל    (§ 95) occurs 2 K. 23:10 (cf. לְמַעַן ל     Ez. 21:20), and מִבִּלְתִּי     Nu. 14:16 ''because Je. was not able''. — The inf. is sometimes negatived by prep. מן    away from, as Is. 5:6 מֵֽהַמְטִיר    command not to rain. So after to swear Is. 54:9, cf. Deu. 4:21, and to beware Gen. 31:29 (cf. v. 24), 2 K. 6:9. Occasionally a periphrasis of לֵאמֹר    saying and direct speech is employed, Gen. 3:11 with v. 17, Am. 2:12.

Rem. 2. The finite tense consecutive to the inf. (§ 96) will show the nuances of time, relation, &c., in which the inf. was used. Thus Gen. 39:18, 1 S. 24:12, the inf. referred to a past act; 2 K. 18:32, Jud. 6:18 to a future one, and Am. 1:11 to a frequentative action. Loose constructions occasionally arise in the process of resolution, e.g. Hos. 9:7 על רֹב עֲוֹֽנְךָ וְרַבָּה    i.e. וְעַל־אֲשֶׁר רבה     and because … is great;