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 nature. Job 11:17 תָּעֻפָה  (cohort.) should it be dark. Am. 4:7 תַּמְטִיר  it rained (freq.). Mic. 3:6 it shall be dark, Ps. 50:3; 68:15. (But cf. 1 S. 29:10 when it is light (mas.), 2 S. 2:32, see Gen. 44:3, Jer. 13:16.) And of an unseen power, Job 18:14 it brings him (he is brought) to the king of terrors. The pass. is also used impersonally in the mas. Gen. 4:26 אָז הוּחַל לִקְרֹא  then it was begun to invoke; Ez. 16:34 וְאַֽחֲרַיִךְ לֹא זוּנָּה  there was no whoring after thee. The pass. in this case often governs like the act. (§ 79), Am 4:2 וְנִשָּׂא אֶתְכֶם  ye shall be taken away. Nu. 16:29, Deu. 21:3, 4, 2 S. 17:16, Is. 14:3; 16:10; 27:13; 53:5, Jer. 16:6, Am. 9:9, Mal. 1:11 (ptcp.), Ps. 87:3.

Rem. 1. The forms טוֹב , רַע   , מַר   , &c.; might be adjectives, but the use of impf. and inf. makes it more probable that they are perfs. Peculiar is Prov. 13:10, by pride יִתֵּן מַצָּה  there comes strife (es giebt). Rarely with suff., Job 6:17 בְּחֻמּוֹ  when it is hot.

Rem. 2. It is scarcely impersonal use of fem. when it is employed of a subject suggested by some statement preceding, where we say it. Is. 7:7 לֹא תָקוּם  it shall not stand (the purpose); 14:24, Jud. 11:39, 1 S. 10:12. The fem. is often, however, used for neut. — Comp. these cases of fem.: Gen. 24:14 (thereby), 1 S. 11:2 ושׂמתיה  (it, putting out their eye), Gen. 15:6 counted it (the fact that he believed) Ex. 30:21, Jos. 11:20 היתה , 2 S. 2:26; 3:37, 1 K. 2:15, 2 K. 19:25; 24:3, 20, Is. 22:11; 30:8, Mic. 1:9, Jer. 4:28; 5:31; 7:31; 10:7; 19:5, Ez. 33:33, Job 4:5; 18:15.

Rem. 3. In poetry a peculiar consn. occurs in which the verb seems to have a double subj., one personal and the other the organ or member, &c., by which the action is actually performed. This neuter subj. has always a suff. of the same person as the personal subj., and may precede or follow the verb. Ps. 3:5 קוֹלִי אל־י׳ אֶקְרָא  my voice, I cried, i.e. I cried aloud; Is. 10:30 צַֽהֲלִי קוֹלֵךְ  shout aloud! Is. 26:9, Hab. 3:15, Ps. 17:10, 13, 14; 32:8; 44:3; 60:7; 66:17; 69:11; 108:2, 7; 142:2. In a nominal sent. Ps. 83:19.