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 Times is expressed by פַּעַם  (beat). Gen. 2:23 הַפַּעַם  this time. Jos. 6:3 פ׳ אַחַת  one time. Neh. 13:20 פ׳ וּשְׁתַּיִם  once or twice. Gen. 27:36; 43:10 פַּֽעֲמַיִם  two times. Ex. 23:17 שָׁלשׁ פְּעָמִים  three times, &c. Gen. 33:3, Nu. 14:22, 2 K. 13:19, Job 19:3, Neh. 4:6-2 S. 24:3 מאה פעמים  100 times. Deu. 1:11 אלף פעמים  1000 times, 1 K. 22:16 — The word time may be omitted. 2 K. 6:10 אַחַת , שְׁתַּיִם   once, twice. 1 K. 10:22, Job 40:5. Also בְּאחת , בִּשְׁתים   1 S. 18:21, Job 33:14, Nu. 10:4. With similar omission, שֵׁנִית  a second time, Gen. 41:5, Is. 11:11; שְׁלִישִׁת  a third time, 1 S. 3:8, a seventh time 1 K. 18:44. — Other words for times are רְגָלִים  Ex. 23:14, Nu. 22:28, 32, 33; and מֹנִים  Gen. 31:7.

Rem. 6. Fractions. — Apart from חֲצִי  half, 1 K. 16:21, &c., fractions are formed: (a) by separate words, as רֹבַע   a fourth, Nu. 23:10, 2 K. 6:25; חֹמֶשׁ  a fifth, Gen. 47:26. The analogy has not been followed in other cases (cf. Ar. tholth a third). The form רֶבַע  also, 1 S. 9:8. For a tenth עִשָּׂרוֹן  (pl. עֶשְׂ׳   ), peculiar to P. The tithe is מַֽעֲשֵׂר. (b) By the fem. of Ordin. as שְׁלִשִׁית  a third, 2 S. 18:2, 2 K. 11:5, Ez. 5:2, 12; רְבִעִית  a fourth, Nu. 15:4, Neh. 9:3. So the others, Gen. 47:24, Lev. 5:11, 16, 24, Ez. 4:11; 45:13. Above tenth the Card. must be used, Neh. 5:11, the one per cent. The noun of measure, weight, &c., usually has the Art. after the fraction, Ex. 26:16, Nu. 15:4; 28:14, 1 K. 7:31, 32, 2 K. 6:25, Ez. 45:13; 46:14.

Obs. — In prose composition these general rules may be safely followed. 1. Place all numerals before their noun. 2. The units take their noun in pl.; before an indef. noun they are in the abs., except two; before a def. noun in cons.; also in cons. before the word days and before other numerals. 3. The numbers 11–19 have fixed forms (Gr. § 48) but the second form of 11 and 12 may be neglected. 4. The numbers 11 and upwards take their noun in pl., except collectives, and words of time, weight, and measure, though usage is not uniform, § 37, R. 1. 5. Compound numbers like 23 form one number twenty-and-three (in this order), the unit in abs., but its gender regulated by the noun. So in greater numbers the largest first, and each class joined by and, as 6000 and 300 and 50 and four. 6. The rules for Ordinals, § 38.