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Other Pronomial Expressions

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Other Pronomial Expressions
§ 11. The want of a reflexive pronoun is supplied in various ways. (a) By the use of reflexive forms of the verb (Niph., Hith.). Genesis 3:10 ‏וָֽאִירָא וָאֵֽחָבֵא‎ I was afraid, and hid myself. Genesis 45:1 ‏לאֹ יָכֺל לְהִתְאַפֵּק‎ he was unable to control himself. Genesis 3:8; Genesis 45:1; Genesis 42:7, 1 Samuel 18:4; 1 Samuel 28:8, 1 Kings 14:2; 1 Kings 20:38; 1 Kings 22:30.
(b) By the ordinary personal pron., simple or suff. Isaiah 7:14 ‏יִתֵּן אֲדֺנָי הוּא‎ the Lord Himself will give. Exodus 32:13 ‏אשׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לָהֶם בָּךְ‎ to whom thou didst swear by thyself. Jeremiah 7:19 ‏הַֽאֺתִי הֵם מַכְעִיסִים הֲלאֹ אֺתָם‎ do they provoke me? is it not themselves, &c. Genesis 3:7; Genesis 33:17, Exodus 5:7, Exodus 5:11, Isaiah 3:9; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 63:10, Hosea 4:14, Proverbs 1:18, Job 1:12.
(c) By a separate word, esp. ‏נֶפֶשׁ‎. Amos 6:8 ‏נִשְׁבַּע י׳ בְּנַפְשׁוֹ‎ Je. has sworn by himself. 1 Samuel 18:1, 1 Samuel 18:3. Plur., Jeremiah 37:9. So ‏לֵב‎, ‏קֶרֶב‎ heart. Genesis 8:21 ‏וַיּאֹמֶר י׳ אֶל־לִבּוֹ‎ and Je. thought with himself. Genesis 18:12 ‏וַתִּצְחַק שׂ׳ בְּקִרְבָּהּ‎ Sarah laughed within herself. Genesis 24:45, 1 Samuel 1:13; 1 Samuel 27:1, 1 Kings 12:26, Hosea 7:2. Also ‏פָּנִים‎ face, presence, self, esp. in later style. 2 Samuel 17:11 ‏וּפָנֶיךָ הֺֽלְכִים בַּקְּרָב‎ thou thyself going into battle (rd. perh. ‏בְּקִרְבָּם‎ among them). Ezekiel 6:9 ‏וְנָקֺטּוּ בִפְנֵיהֶם‎ they shall loathe themselves. Exodus 33:14, Deuteronomy 4:37, Ezekiel 20:43; Ezekiel 36:31, Job 23:17. In ref. to things, ‏עֶצֶם‎ bone, self-same, self Exodus 24:10; chiefly PC. and Ez. Genesis 7:13, Ezekiel 24:2.
Rem. 1. Some other quasi-pronominal expressions are these: (a) Some, several, may be expressed by plur. Genesis 24:55 ‏יָמִם‎ some days (a time); Genesis 40:4 (cf. Genesis 27:44; Genesis 29:20 ‏יָמִים אֲחָדִים‎ a few days). Ezekiel 38:17. By prep. ‏מִן‎ with noun. Genesis 30:14 give me ‏מִדּֽוּדָאֵי בְנֵךְ‎ some of thy son's mandrakes. Jeremiah 19:1 ‏מִזִּקְנֵי הָעָם‎ some of the elders. Exodus 17:5, Psalms 137:3, and often in later style.
(b) Any, every by ‏כֺּל‎. Deuteronomy 16:21 an Ashera ‏כָּל־עֵץ‎ any (kind of) wood. Any one, one, by ‏אישׁ‎. Genesis 13:16 ‏אִם יוּכַלּ אִישׁ‎ if one were able. Anything, ‏דָּבָר‎ Genesis 18:14. No, none, by ‏אִישׁ‎... ‏לאֹ‎; nothing, ‏דָּבָר‎... ‏לאֹ‎, the neg. placed before the verb. Genesis 45:1 ‏לאֹ עָמַד אִישׁ‎ none stood. Hosea 2:10 ‏אִישׁ לאֹ יַצִּילֶנָּה‎ none shall deliver her. 2 Kings 10:25 ‏אישׁ אַל־יֵצֵא‎ let on one go out. Exodus 16:19. Deuteronomy 2:7 ‏לֹא חָסַרְתָּ דָּבָר‎ thou didst want nothing; Deuteronomy 22:26, 2 Samuel 17:19, 1 Kings 18:21. Sometimes strengthened by ‏כל‎, 2 Samuel 18:13. Cf. Genesis 3:1, thou shalt eat of no tree. Exodus 12:48. The phrase... ‏לאֹ טְאוּמָה‎ nothing, 1 Samuel 12:4, cf. Genesis 22:12.
(c) This... that, the one... the other, by ‏זֶה‎... ‏זֶה‎ Isaiah 6:3 (§ 5), or ‏אֶחָד‎... ‏אֶחָד‎, Exodus 17:12, 1 Kings 3:25. One another by ‏אָחִיו‎... ‏אִישׁ‎ or ‏רֵעֵהוּ‎... ‏אישׁ‎, Genesis 13:11; Genesis 11:3, Exodus 16:15; Exodus 32:27, Isaiah 3:5; fem. Exodus 26:3, Exodus 26:5, Ezekiel 1:23, Isaiah 34:16.
(d) Each distributively by ‏אִישׁ‎, Judges 9:55 ‏וַיֵּלְֽכוּ אִישׁ לִמְקֺמוֹ‎ Judges 7:7, 1 Samuel 8:22; 1 Samuel 10:25, 2 Samuel 6:19, the noun usually sing., but usually plur. with tents, Judges 7:8 ‏שִׁלַּח אִישׁ לְאֺֽהָלָיו‎ the men of Israel he dismissed, every one to his tents. 1 Samuel 13:2.—Also by ‏אֶחָד‎ Isaiah 6:2, Judges 8:18. When ‏אישׁ‎ would be in the gen. it is placed as casus pendens with a retrospective suff. Genesis 42:35 ‏הִנֵּה־אִישׁ צְרוֹר־כַּסְפּוֹ‎ every man's bundle of money; Genesis 15:10; Genesis 41:12; Genesis 42:25, Numbers 17:2. So Genesis 9:5 ‏מִיַּד אִישׁ אָחִיו‎ at the hand of every man's brother, unless ‏אישׁ אחיו‎ had become a single expression like one another, and the phrase mean at the hand of one another. Comp. Zech, Genesis 7:10 do not plot ‏רָעַת אישׁ אחיו‎ the hurt of one another, cf. Genesis 8:17 for the sense.
(e) Such is expressed by ‏כְּ‎ with ‏זֶה‎ or suff. Genesis 44:7 ‏כּדָּבָר הזה‎ such a thing, ‏כדברים האלה‎ such things. Genesis 41:38 ‏כָּזֶה‎ such a one. Jeremiah 5:9 ‏גּוֹי אשׁר כזה‎ such a nation. Genesis 44:15 ‏אישׁ אשׁר כָּמֺנִי‎ such as I. 2 Samuel 9:8.—2 Samuel 17:15 ‏כָּזאֹת וכזאת‎ such and such a thing. Joshua 7:20, 2 Kings 5:4; 2 Kings 9:12, cf. 1 Kings 14:5. For so and so (person) Rth_4:1. Cf. 1 Samuel 21:2, 2 Kings 6:8.
(f) The pronouns mine, ours, yours, theirs, &c., must be expressed by prep. and suff. Isaiah 43:1 ‏לִי אַתָּה‎ thou art mine; Genesis 48:5. Genesis 26:20 ‏לָנוּ המים‎ the water is ours. Jeremiah 44:28 they shall know ‏דִּבַר מי יקום מִמֶּנִּי וּמֵהֶם‎ whose word shall stand, mine or theirs.

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