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 usually made thus: אִישׁ וּשְׁמוֹ אִוּוֹב    1 S. 1:1; 9:1,2; 17:12, 2 S. 3:7, &c.; but occasionally אִיּוֹב שְׁמוֹ    , a transposed descriptive sentence; Job 1:1, 1 S. 17:4, 23, 2 S. 20:21. 1 K. 13:2, Zech. 6:12. The antecedent is indefinite (1 S. 17:4, 23 is doubtful owing to the obscurity of אישׁ הַבֵּנַיִם    ), and אשׁר     seems nowhere expressed, though after a def. antecedent it might be, cf. Dan. 10:1, and in Aram. 2:26; 4:5. — In cases of identification, as Gen. 14:2, 8 Bela, which is Zoar, the usage is בֶּלַע הִיא־צֹעַר   , cf. vv. 3, 17, and often. Similarly with persons, Jud. 7:1, &c. — On the other hand, in giving the geographical position of a place אשׁר    is used. Gen. 33:18; 50:10, 11, Jud. 18:28, 1 S. 17:1, 1 K. 15:27, 1 Chr. 13:6.

Rem. 4. The אשׁר    is sometimes omitted with and and a verb. Mal. 2:16 וְכִסָּה    and (I hate) him-who covers. Is 57:3 וַתִּזְנֶה    (seed of an adulterer) and of her-who committed whoredom. Am. 6:1 וּבָאוּ    and they-to-whom the house of Is. comes (freq.).

Rem. 5. Some instances of omission of אשׁר    in later prose are, Ezr. 1:5, Neh. 8:10, 1 Chr. 15:12; 29:3, 2 Chr. 1:4; 16:9; 20:22; 30:19. — In 2 K. 25:10 rd. prep. את    before רַך     with Jer. 52:14; and 2 Chr. 34:22 rd. אָמַר    after rel.

Rem. 6. The text Zeph. 3:18 reads: those sorrowing far away from the assembly will I gather, which (they) are of thee, (thou) on whom reproach lay heavy (lit. was a burden). Well. suggests מִשְּׂאֵת ··· הרפה    so that no reproach be taken up against her.

TEMPORAL SENTENCE

§ 145. The prep. (many of which are nouns in cons. state), e.g. ב   , כ‍     , ל     , מן     , לִפְנֵי     , אַֽחֲרֵי     , עַד     , &c., are joined with the nominal form of the verb, the inf. cons. 2. These prep. become conjunctions when the rel. אֲשֶׁר   , כִּי     , is added to them, and are then joined with the finite forms of the verb. 3. The rel. element אֲשֶׁר   , however, is often omitted, though not usually after strict cons. forms like אִפְנֵי   , &c.