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 gen. agreement may be with gen. as expressing the main idea of the phrase; or pred. being next gen. may agree with it by a kind of attraction. 1 K. 17:16 וְצַפַּחַת שֶׁמֶן לא חָסֵר  the cruse of oil did not fail. Is. 2:11, 1 S. 2:4, Lev. 13:9; Job 21:21; 29:10; 38:21. Attraction of gend. Jer. 10:3, Lev. 25:33; in the case of verb to be attraction by pred. Gen. 31:8, Pr. 14:35. The pred. usually agrees with gen. after כל  all, Hos. 9:4, Gen. 5:5, Ex. 15:20, but not universally, Hos. 10:14, Is. 64:10.

Rem. 3. In nominal sent. the pred. adj. when first is sometimes uninflected, Ps. 119:137 יָשָׁר מִשְׁקָּמֶיךָ  upright are thy judgments, cf. v. 155; but this is rare, except with the word טוֹב  ; Jud. 8:2, Gen. 49:15, 1 S. 19:4, 2 K. 5:12, Ps. 73:28; 119:72; 147:1, Pr. 17:1; 20:23. — Gen. 47:3 רֹעֵה  is collec., cf. Deu. 14:7, Ezr. 3:9, Neh. 2:16.

Rem. 4. Plurals of Eminence such as אלהים  God, אדנים בְּעָלִים   lord, owner, when referring to a single person, are usually in concord with sing., Ex. 21:29 בְּעָלָיו יוּמַת   its owner shall be killed, Is. 19:4 אֲדֹנִים קָשֶׁה  a cruel lord. When אלהים  means gods it is construed with pl., and in a few cases even when it is God, Gen. 20:13; 35:7, Ex. 22:8, Jos. 24:19 (E.), and sometimes in the phrase living God, Deu. 5:23, 1 S. 17:26, Jer. 10:10; 23:36. Words only used in pl. are occasionally joined to sing., e.g. 2 S. 10:9 פָּנִים  as fem. sing., cf. Job 16:16.

Rem. 5. Names of nations are construed in three ways: (a) with mas. sing., the name being that of the personal ancestor, Ex. 17:11, Is. 19:16, Am. 1:11, 1 Chr. 18:5; 19:15, 16, 18, 19. (b) Or with plur., 2 S. 10:17, 1 K. 20:20, 2 K. 6:9, 1 Chr. 18:2, 13. (c) Or with fem. sing., when the ref. is to the country or when the population is treated as a collective, often personified; 2 S. 8:2, 5, 6; 10:11; 24:9, Is. 7:2, Jer. 13:19, 1 Chr. 19:12, Job 1:15. The consns. a, b, c may interchange in the same passage. Jer. 48:15, Am. 2:2, 3, Hos. 14:1, Mal. 2:11. Peculiar, Is. 18:1, 2.

Rem. 6. When there are several predicates one may be in agreement and the other left uninflected. Is. 33:9, Mic. 1:9, Zech. 5:11; cf. on adj. § 32, R. 4. But irregularity