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.

~ 121. RELATIVE PRONOUN.

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for any thing whatever (Job xiii. 13). For -T in this sense we
have also the specific term tlttl. (from "*t- t quidquid).
On the use of ro in the sense of negation, see ~ 150, 2, first Note.
SECT. 121.
RELATIVE PRONOUN AND RELATIVE CLAUSES.
1. The pronoun 't. often serves merely as a sign of relation, i. e. to give a relative signification to substantives, adverbs,
or pronouns. E. g. Of there, t — 'I where; ria' thither,,irv - 'tbS whither; tt. thence, t. - -tg whence. In the
same manner the Hebrew forms the oblique cases of the relative
pronoun, who, which, viz.
Dative, ib to him, i 'It. to whom;:~b, 1t to them,: b 'Ite,
Ifr 'It to whom.
Accusative, nt, nit him, her; irs tbt, sitr Wht wAom
(quem, quam).
With prepositions, ti. therein, i. 't wherein, VW:. therefrom,
VM. t '. b. wherefrom.
Genitive, itb.'. whose language, Deut. xxviii. 49.
The accusative whom may, however, be expressed by 'It
alone, as in Gen. ii. 2.
Rem. 1. The Hebrew is able in this way to give a relative sense to the
pronoun of the first and second persons in the oblique cases, for which in
German [and English] the third must be used. E. g. Gen. xlv. 4, 1tk 'Mr.;
Num. xxii. 30, %4 'i<; Is. xli. 8, Jacob thgl. 'Itt whom I have chosen;
Hos. xiv. 4. But in the nom. of the 1st and 2d person this is admissible
also in German, e. g. der ich, der du, die wir, where der stands for welcher,
and serves (like the Heb. n'tb) merely as a sign of relation.
2. The word th. is commonly separated from the one which it thus
affects by one or more words, as t: i 'nin Q% where was, Gen. xiii. 3.
Only seldom are they written together as in 2 Chron. vi. 11.
2. Before m'O we are often to supply the personal or demonstrative pronoun (he, she, that, see ~ 122, 2), as in Latin is before
qui. E. g. Num. xxii. 6, A' 't.l and (he) whom thou cursest;
Is. lii. 15, -vt bib 'l (that) which they have not heard. The
pronoun is almost always to be supplied where a preposition
stands before 'Ib; the preposition is then construed with the
supplied pronoun, and the relative takes the case which is
required by its connexion with the following part of the sentence.