which they belong, in the state either of apposition or of construction, as has been seen in the preceding examples. When, however, in apposition, the numeral is sometimes placed last; and this takes place for the most part, not when the noun and its numeral are viewed together as representing one qualified idea, but when the noun being already known is mentioned only for the purpose of being specified as to its number, so that the numeral partakes of the nature of a and Noah begot וַיּוֹלֶד נֹחַ שְׁלֹשָׁה בָנִים predicate. Thus in the phrase three sons, Gen. 6: 10., the narrator informs us at the same moment that Noah begot sons, and that they were three in number; but in the children of Judah that bore shield and spear (were) six thousand and eight hundred, 1 Chron. 12: 24., he intimates that the fact of there being such soldiers is well known, and that he mentions them simply for the sake of recording their numbers. § 936. 1. In this case the noun, which when mentioned is not already specified as plural by a preceding numeral (see § 930), necessarily assumes the form indicative of plurality, whatever its following numeral may be, e. g. two lambs of a year old, Ex. 29: 38. Num. 28: 11., y two cities, Josh. 21:27., three days, 1 Chron. 12: 39., by three cubits, 2 Chron. 6 : 13., &c. ; נָשִׁים אַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה,.5 :25 .fourteen sons, 1 Chron בָּנִים אַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂר 2. From these are to be excepted the collective nouns, which are sometimes thus employed in the singular form, but with a plural signification, e. g. as all the souls (were) fourteen, Gen. 46: 22., seven hundred oxen, 2 Chron. 15; 11., of craftsmen and smiths a thousand, 2 Kings 24:16., בָּקָר שְׁבַע .25:12 .of sheep three thousand, 1 Sam צאן שְׁלֹשֶׁת אֲלָפִים ,seven hundred oren and seven thousand sheep מֵאוֹת וְצֹאן שִׁבְעַת אֲלָפִים 2 Chron. 15:11. § 937. As respects the order of the numerals among themselves, we find that they are most commonly, although not always, placed according to their magnitude, beginning with the greatest, and are usually connected by the conjunction. Thus, 1. a. The units are placed before the tens, e. g. U, DAY sixty-two years, Gen. 5:18, 20, 26, 28., my byung tan ninety-five years, v. 17, 25. Sometimes the noun is repeated after each of them, ,.6:3 .Gen מֵאָה וְעֶשְׂרִים .18: 2 Ezra מֵאָה וּשְׁנֵים עָשָׂר .and units, e. g myibya Dhbg nga Ezra 2 : 23.,, Dhay ning du 2:11, 24. Sometimes the noun numbered is placed after, and also after each תְּשַׁע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וּשְׁלֹשִׁים שָׁנָה .of the other numerical expressions, e. g .25:7 .Gen מְאַת שָׁנָה וְשִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְחָמֵשׁ שָׁנִים .9:28 .5 :5 .Gen b. Occasionally is placed immediately after these numerals, חֲמִשִׁים וּמְאַת יוֹם .and in construction with the noun numbered, e. g .16:16 .Ex שֶׁבַע וּשְׁלֹשִׁים וּמְאַת .9: 47 שְׁלֹשִׁים וּמְאַת .7:24 .Gen Sometimes the noun is placed after both orders of numerals, e. g. THU HỌ ĐẠO Tr Gen. 5:6, 18, 25, 28., ngại Thị Thu Đin 3. When or is employed, it is usually placed first, and is followed by the other numerals in the order of their magnitude, e. g. § 938. When the compound expression consisting of a noun and its numeral is to be rendered definite, the numeral is usually placed in construction with the following noun, which takes the article, e. g. an is the two great lights, Gen. 1: 16. 19:1. Ex. 25: 22., the three branches, Gen. 40: 12. 2 Sam. 23: 17., the five men, Judg. 18: 7. &c., the hundred talents, the three hundred men, Judg. 7: 7, 8. Ex. 38: 27., 8:4.* § 939. 1. When the noun numbered may be readily supplied from the context, it is often omitted (see § 737. 1.), e. g. is three hundred (men), 1 Chron. 11:11., twenty-four thousand (men), 27: 1, 2., seven hundred (shekels) of • In the following instance the article is prefixed to the numeral, viz. Y gold, Judg. 8:26. 1 Kings 10: 16., a thousand (shekels) of silver, Gen. 20: 16. 1 Kings 10: 29. 2. In this case the numerals frequently take the article, like other attributives used independently (see § 723), e. g. the two (men), Eccl. 4:9, 12., the three (captains), 1 Chron. 11:18, 20, 21., the five (kings), Gen. 14: 9., the thirty (captains), the forty (righteous), Gen. 18:29, the thousands, i. e. the companies 1 Chron. 11: 25. 27: 6., 31, 32., in the hundreds, containing a hundred or a thousand men each, 1 Chron. 28: 1. They may also take the pronominal suffixes, e. g. This thousands (of Philistines), his myriads, 1 Sam. 18:7. Ordinals. § 940. The ordinal numerals are those which do not denote a plurality of objects like the cardinals, but merely specify a single one with respect to the order in which it stands among a number of individual entities of the same description. Hence in Hebrew as in many other languages they are considered as adjectives, and assume the peculiarities of that class of words with respect to position, gender, and the reception or non-reception of the article. § 941. Thus the ordinal is first, fem., is always placed after the noun it qualifies, and agrees with it in all the above mentioned points, e. g. the first day, Neh. 8:18., WNIJ Jen the first slaughter, 1 Sam. 14:14., former days, Deut. 4:32., in the first cows, Gen. 41: 20. As the cardinal is also an adjective used to qualify a noun with regard to its indi. viduality (924), it not unfrequently takes the place of the ordinal its, e. g. one day the first day, Gen. 1:5. Ezra 3:6. 10: 17. = § 942. The ordinals from second to tenth are likewise adjectives agreeing in the same manner with the nouns to which they belong (see § 623). Thus without the article, e. g. the second day, the fourth generation, 15: 16., another piece, Neh. 3: 19, 20, 21., DYD third messengers, i. e. messengers Gen. 1; 8., son, 30: 19.; the fifth time, 6:5.; sent a third time, 1 Sam. 19: 21.: with the article, e. g. the sixth wyn wçin an the other door, 1 Kings 6: 34., in the fourth year, Lev. 19:24. 25:4.* § 943. The ordinals like the cardinals may be used alone when the noun to which they refer can be readily understood from the context (§ 939), in which case they of course agree in gender with the noun so understood (§ 737. 1.): thus masc. the first (twin), Gen. 25:25. 2 Sam. 18: 27., the first (river), Gen. 2:11. 8 : 5., " the second (lot), 1 Chron. 24:7-18. 25: 9-31., in the fifth (month), Ezek. 20: 1. ; fem. e. g. ♫ the first (midwife), Ex. 1: 15., the third (time), 1 Sam. 3: 8. 1 Kings 18:44. Ezek. 21: 19., in the seventh (year), Ex. 21: 2. 23 : 11. § 944. 1. When a period of time is to be specified by a number higher than ten, for which there is no separate ordinal form, it is effected by placing the name of the division of time intended, usually accompanied by the preposition, in construction with the same noun numbered by a cardinal, e. g. y ay big on the day of eleven days, i. e. on the eleventh day, Num. 7: 72, 78. 2 Kings 14: 23., so y in the twenty-third year, 12: 7. 13: 1, 10. 15: 1, 8, 23., nist in the six hundredth year, Gen. 7:11.† 2. a. It often happens however that, both nouns being the same, one of them is omitted as not absolutely necessary to perspicuity. This is most frequently the case with the second noun, e. g. yj big on the day of thirteen (days), i. e. on the thirteenth day, Esth. 9: 17., on the twenty-fourth day, Hag. 1:15. Neh. בשְׁנַת עֶשְׂרִים,.1: 17 in the trelfth year, 2 Kings בִּשְׁנַת שְׁתִּים עֶשְׂרָה,.9:1 • The numeral occasionally takes the article when the noun does not, in which case the article is equivalent to a relative (see § 724. II. 1. a. note), e. g. bi the sixth day, lit. a day that (is) the sixth, Gen. 1:31. 2:3. † We also find a cardinal employed as an ordinal with the preposition prefixed to the numeral itself, when the noun to which it refers has been previously mentioned, and is consequently readily understood, e. g. 7b) ninx dua he shall deliver thee in six troubles; and in the seventh no evil shall touch thee, Job 5: 19.; and even without, in the same antithetical construction, they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth they rebelled, Gen. 14: 4. The fol there are three things (that) are never satisfied, (indeed) the fourth never says, Enough, Prov. 30: 15, 18, 21, 29. Amos 1 : 3, 6, 9, 11. 2: 1., in gen-wy i nayin saw there are six things (that) the Lord hates, and indeed the seventh (is) an abomination to him, Prov. 6:16. in the twentieth year, 2 Kings 15:30. 2 Chron. 16:12. This construction is not unfrequently extended to the lower numerals, although they have separate ordinal forms, e. g. in the second year, 2 Kings 14: 1. Hag. 1:1, 15. Zech. 1:1. (for awa), nawa in the third year, 1 Kings 15:28. Esth. 1:3., 2 in the fourth year, 1 Kings 22: 41. Zech. 7: 1. &c., on the eighth day, 2 Chron. 29: 17. b. Sometimes the first noun is omitted, and for a like reason; the preposition being then added to the numeral, e. g. in the (year of) eleven years, i. e. in the eleventh year, Jer. 39: 2. Esth. 3: 12., so yy for the eleventh month, 1 Chron. 27: 14., בְּאַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה,.2: 25 until the eleventh year, 2 Kings עַשְׁתֵּי עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה on the בְּשִׁבְעָה וְעֶשְׂרִים יוֹם,.5 :14 .in the fourteenth year, Gen שָׁנָה twenty-seventh day, Gen. 8:14. Deut. 1:3. 2 Kings 25:27. Ezek. 40: 1., is in the six hundred and first year, Gen. 8:13. 3., In indicating dates, the terms day and month, as in English, are on the בִּשְׁלוֹשָׁה עָשָׂר לְחֹדֶשׁ שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר .often omitted altogether, e. g འང་། ནམ་ thirteenth (day) of the twelfth month, Esth. 3:13. 2 Chron. 30: 15. 35: 1., on the twenty-fourth (day) of the ninth (month), Hab. 2: 10., 5 on the twenty-fifth (day) of (the month) Elul, Neh. 6: 15., &c. &c. This construction is also extended to the units, e. g. on the first of the month, 2 Chron. 29:17., wnny on the fourth of the month, Zech. 7:1. Ezek. on the ninth of the month, Lev. 23:32. Jer. 33:22., 39:2.52:6. Fractionals. § 945. 1. The fractional numbers, with the exception of one half, Ex. 24: 6. 26: 12. &c., are denoted by the feminine ordinals employed as abstract nouns (see § 926) in construction with a denomination of measure, weight, &c., which latter receives the article, e. g. the third of a hin, Num. 15: 6, 7. 28: 14., a fourth of the day, Neh. 9: 3., Ezek. 45:13. 46: 14., the sixth of an ephah, the tenth of an ephah, Ex. 16: 36. In like manner they receive a pronominal suffix, e. g. yn half of us, a third of thee, |