Gesenius' Hebrew grammar: 17th ed., with numerous corrections and additions, by dr. E. Rödiger. Tr. by T. J. Conant ... With grammatical exercises and a chrestomathy, by the translator.

PART II. SYNTAX.

SECT. 120.
OF THE DEMONSTRATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE PRO
NOUNS.
1. The pronoun of the third person Rion, fern. W;, plur.
V2J, fen. 1-, sl (is, ea, id; ii, ece, ea) may also [like adjectives] be joined to substantives, and should then take the article,
if the substantive has it, e. g. RMi. t~.t is vir, NR.r, CI. eo die
[comp. in vulgar English in them days for in those days]. See
an exception in ~ 109, 2, b.
When employed in this way, RtI is to be distinguished from the demonstrative n.t; for n= — oviro, hic, always points to an object present or near,
but Wsn=ao'6V, is, indicates (like the article, ~ 107) an object already
mentioned or known [the former answering to this and the latter nearly to
that]. The distinction is clearly seen in Judges vii. 4, of whom Isay to thee,
"this (n.) shall go with thee," that one (XV.I) shall go with thee; and of
whomsoever I say to thee, " this (MT) shall not go with thee," that one (XSn)
shall not go. So also in Ps. xx. 8,* oVTO and IanI atrol in vs. 9.
Hence MnM::n. this day means the day in which any one speaks or writes
(Gen. xxvi. 33), but RW.Sb t:q~. [that day] means the day or time of which
the historian has just made mention (Gen. xv. 18; xxvi. 32), or the prophet
just predicted (Is. v. 30; vii. 18, 20), and goes on to relate or to predict.
2. The demonstrative 'lt (also IT, IT), has also, especially in
poetry, the force of the relative flt; comp. in Eng. that for
which. E. g. Ps. civ. 8, to the place W:b PlbD,T which thou
hast destined for them. It is even employed (like 1t., ~ 121, 1)
to give a relative sense to another word; e. g. Ps. lxxiv. 2, Mount
Zion ' n:??t_,t on which thou dwellest.
t. is used adverbially, a) for there, it n1sn see there! and then merely
as an intensive particle, especially in questions, as i lt. n wherefore
then? (prop. wherefore there?), b) in reference to time, for now, as tsn. nI.
now (already) twice, Gen. xxvii. 36.
3. The interrogative 4. can be used in reference to a plural,
as l..h '. Gen. xxxiii. 5 (for which, however, A.d 'n is more
accurately used, Ex. x. 8); also in reference to things, yet only
when the idea of persons is implied, e. g. =1t 'I who are the
Shechemites? Judges ix. 28; comp. Gen. xxxiii. 8. —.. may
also stand in the genitive, as ' nM whose daughter? Gen. xxiv.
23. It is also used indefinitely for any one whoever, and M,