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 phatic, 2 Chr. 1:10, or when other specifications are linked to it, Jer. 13:10.

Rem. 4. When two adj. qualify a fem. noun the second is sometimes left in mas. 1 K. 19:11 רוח גדולה וחזק a great and strong wind, Jer. 20:9 (1 S. 15:9). And in cases of a commodity and its measure or number the adj. may agree with the commodity as the main thing, 1 S. 17:17 this ephah of parched corn; v. 28.

Rem. 5. The adj. is sometimes used nominally and put by the noun in gen.; 2 K. 18:17 חֵיל כָּבֵד a great force, Is. 22:24 כָּל־כְּלֵי הַקָּטָז all vessels of the smallest, Song 7:10 יֵין הַטּוֹב wine of the best. Deu. 19:13; 27:25, Jer. 22:17 (cf. 2 K. 24:4), Nu. 5:18, 2 K. 25:9 (Am. 6:2?), Zech. 14:4, Ps. 73:10; 74:15 (cf. Ex. 14:27); 78:49; 109:2, 2 Chr. 4:10, Ecc. 1:13; 8:10. — Other exx. of adj. used nominally, Gen. 30:35, 37 (exposing the white), Deu. 28:48 (and nakedness), Josh. 3:4 (a distance), Jud. 9:16; 14:14 (sweetness), Josh. 24:14, 2 K. 10:15 (perh. om. את ), Jer. 2:25; 15:15; 30:12, Is. 28:4 (flower of a fading thing), v. 16, Ps. 111:8, Job 33:27 (perverted right). — Conversely the noun may be put in gen. by the adj. used nominally, often with superlative meaning, Jud. 5:29 (the wisest), Is. 19:11; 35:9, Ez. 7:24; 28:7. Ex. 15:16, 1 S. 16:7; 17:40, Jer. 15:15, Ps. 46:5; 65:5. Pr. 16:19, שׁפל might be inf.

Rem. 6. The adj. when it expresses the characteristic attribute of the noun is sometimes used instead of it; Is. 24:23 הַלְּבָנָה the moon (the white), הַֽחַמָּה the sun (the hot), 30:16 קַל the horse (swift), Jer. 8:16, Mal. 3:11 הָֽאֹכֵל the consumer (locust). Mostly in poetry and less common than in Ar.

THE ADJECTIVE. COMPARISON

§ 33. The language possesses no elative form of the adj. Comparison is made by the simple form, followed by prep. מִן, Gen. 3:1 עָרוּם מִכִּל חַיַּת הַשָּׂדֶה more cunning than all the beasts; Deu. 11:23 גּוֹיִם גְּדֹלִים מִכֶּם nations greater