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 in gend. and numb. is common, e.g. Jer. 31:9 דֶּרֶךְ יָשָׁר ··· בָּהּ , Zech. 6:7. Sometimes text may be at fault, Jud. 4:20 עָמֹד , inf. abs.? 1 S. 2:20 rd. שָׁאֻל  ; 25:27 הֵבִיאָה  , cf. v. 35. In particular, vowel terminations of verbs were not always expressed in ancient texts, and are sometimes given or omitted wrongly by Mass. Ez. 18:29 יִתָּכֵנוּ  as v. 25. With 20:38 יבוא  cf. Is. 45:24. In Lam. 5:10 נִכְמְרוּ  may be due to plur. suff. in our skin, cf. 1 Chr. 24:19, 2 Chr. 17:14, Jer. 2:34.

Exx. of mas. for 2 fem. impf., Is. 57:8, Jer. 3:5, Ez. 22:4; 23:32; 26:14.

PARTICULAR KINDS OF SENTENCE

INTERJECTIONAL SENTENCE

§ 117. Words in direct address (the voc.) are of the form of interj. as הַמֶּלֶךְ  O king! אֲדֹנִי הַמֶּלֶךְ   my lord the king! and such phrases of entreaty as בִּי אֲדֹנִי. But any words may be uttered as exclamations, 2 K. 4:19 רֹאשִׁי רֹאשִׁי  my head! 11:14 קֶשֶׁר קָשֶׁר   ''treason! treason!'' Jer. 4:19 my bowels! 37:14 שֶׁקֶר  it’s a lie! 2 K. 9:12. Is. 29:16 הַפְּכְּכֶם  your perversity! Jer. 49:16. Hab. 2:19 הוּא יוֹרֶה  it reveal! Hos. 8:1 to thy mouth the trumpet! 2 S. 13:12 אַל־אָהִי  don’t! my brother! Gen. 49:4. So adverbs: לֹא  no! הֵן   well, yes! טוֹב   ''good! well!'' Also the imper. of some verbs, as (יהב) הָֽבָה   go to! Gen. 38:16, Ex. 1:10; לֵךְ  , לֵכָה   (even to a woman, Gen. 19:32) come!

More strict interjections are הַס  ''hush! silence!'' Jud. 3:19, Am. 6:10, Zeph. 1:7, Hab. 2:20, Zech. 2:17. A verb הסה  is denom. from הס  Neh. 8:11, Nu. 13:30. — אֵיךְ  how! in the Elegy, 2 S. 1:25, 27, Hos. 11:8 (elegiac measure), more commonly אֵיכָה  Is. 1:21, Lam. 1:1. — אוֹי  woe! with prep. ל , Is. 6:5 אוֹי־לִי , 3:9, 11, Jer. 4:31; without prep. Ez. 24:6.