This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...22 &c. on the other hand the plural fern, verb is sometimes used where we should expect the sing., as Ex. i. 10, Judg. v. 26, Is. xxviii. 3. Cf. Ob. 13. 27. Sometimes a plural nom. has a sing, verb preceding, as 1 Sam. i. 2, Is. xiii. 22 &c, or following, as Eccles. ii. 7, Gen. xlvi. 22, Is. lxiv. 10 &c. Sometimes the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...22 &c. on the other hand the plural fern, verb is sometimes used where we should expect the sing., as Ex. i. 10, Judg. v. 26, Is. xxviii. 3. Cf. Ob. 13. 27. Sometimes a plural nom. has a sing, verb preceding, as 1 Sam. i. 2, Is. xiii. 22 &c, or following, as Eccles. ii. 7, Gen. xlvi. 22, Is. lxiv. 10 &c. Sometimes the construction varies in the same sentence Gen. i. 14, Num. ix. 6, Ezek. xiv. 1. 28. Anomalous violations of gender are met with, e. g. a mas. pron. refers to a fern, noun Ex. i. 21, xi. 6, Judg. xix. 24. The reverse occurs Deut. v. 27, 2 Sam. iv. 6. The genders are confounded or disregarded in Gen. xxxii. 9, Josh. ii. 17, Jer. xliv. 19, Prov. ii. 10, 15, xiv. 3, Lev. vi. 8, Lam. ii. 20, Hab. iii. 17, Hos. xiv. 1, Is. iii. 16. Much confusion of genders is found in the book of Ruth, e. g. fern, pron. refers to mas. noun i. 13 &c. Cf. Jer. iii. 5, Ezek. xxiii. 49. 29. When the verb precedes its subject it is often found disagreeing with it in gender and number, e. g. Gen. v. 23, sing, verb with m. pi. noun. Ex. xvii. 12, s. v. with dual n. Ex. i. 10, f. pL v. with f. s. n. 1 Sam. xxv. 27, m. s. v. with f. s. n. Job. xlii. 15, Mic vi. 16, m. s. v. with f. pi. n. Job. xiv. 19, f. s. v. with m. pi. n. Ezek. xix 12, pL m. v. with m. s. n. Ps. lvii. 2, lxxiii. 7, m. s. v. with f. pi. n. 1 Ch. ii. 48. f. n. with m. v. Cf. Hag. ii. 7, The desire of all nations shall come, pi. v. with f. s. n. Cf. Judg. xxi. 10. 13. 21, Num. xxxii. 25, 2 Ch. xi. 12, Is.xxiv. 4, xxviii. 3, xxxiv. 13, xliv. 26, Jer. iv. 14, xii. 4, xiii. 16. 18, xlvi. 15, li. 29. 48, Job. xxvii. 20, 2 Sam. xix. 9 &c. 30. Sometimes the singular is used, where the plural might be expected, to express the individual relation of the predicate to all the members of the subjec...
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