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 Rem. 3. The gend. is sometimes inexact. Gen. 7:13 (due to mas. form of noun), cf. Ex. 26:26; Job 1:4, Ez. 7:2, Zech. 3:9, 1 Chr. 3:20, Ez. 45:3 Kth. — The noun is sometimes sing. after units in the case of words used collectively, 2 K. 8:17; 22:1 (year), 25:17 (cubit), Ex. 21:37 ( בקר, צאן ), cf. Gen. 46:27; and in cases where the thing weighed or measured is omitted (§ 37, R. 4). Gen. 24:22, Jud. 17:10, 1 S. 10:4; 17:17; 21:4, Ex. 16:22. In Ez. 45:1 rd., breadth twenty thousand.

Rem. 4. The Num. 2, 3, 4, 7 may take suffixes, as שְׁנֵינוּ we two, both of us, שְׁלָשְׁתָּם they three, &c. Nu. 12:4, 1 S. 25:43, 2 S. 21:9, Ez. 1:8, Dan. 1:17, cf. 2 K. 1:10 his fifty. — The order is to be observed: Gen. 9:19 שְׁלשָׁה אֵלֶּה these three, 1 K. 3:18 שְׁתַּיִם אֲנַחְנוּ we two. Gen. 22:23, Deu. 19:9, 1 S. 20:42. So gen. Ex. 21:11, 2 S. 21:22, Is. 47:9.

Rem. 5. The language says two three, &c. (without or), as Engl. 2 K. 9:32, Is. 17:6, Am. 4:8.

§ 37. Numerals above the units mostly have the noun in plur. (except collectives and words of time, measure, and weight). They stand in Appos., and mainly precede their noun — but may follow (chiefly in later style). When they follow, the noun is plur., even though otherwise employed in sing.

(a) The Num. 11–19. Gen. 37:9 אַחַד עָשָׂר כּוֹכָבִים eleven stars. 2 S. 9:10 חֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר בָּנִים fifteen sons. Jos. 4:8 שְׁתֵּי עֶשְׂרֵה אֲבָנִים twelve stones. Gen. 32:23; 42:13, Ex. 15:27; 24:4, Deu. 1:23, Jud. 3:14, 2 S. 2:30; 9:10; 19:18, 1 K. 18:31, 2 K. 14:21. Ex. 27:15, Nu. 17:14; 29:14, 15, Jos. 15:41.

(b) The tens, 20–90. Jud. 12:14 אַרְבָּעִים בָּנִים forty sons. Gen. 18:24 חֲמִשִּׁים עַדִּיקִם fifty righteous. Exceptional order, Gen. 32:15, 16 אֲתֹנֹת עֶשְׂרִים twenty she-asses, &c. Gen. 18:26, 28, Ex. 15:27; 21:32, Jud. 1:7; 8:30; 10:4; 12:14; 14:11–13, 2 S. 3:20; 9:10, 2 K. 2:16; 10:1; 13:7; 15, 20, Ez. 42:2; 45:12.