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.

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PART III. SYNTAX.

b) Adversative (and yet, while yet); Judg. xvi. 15, how canst thou say 1
love thee.r. le abl and (yet) thy heart is not with me (i. e. white yet),
Gen. xv. 2; xviii. 13.
c) Causal (for, because); Ps. v. 12, let them ever shout for joy, because
(when, since) thou dost defend them. Is. xliii. 12, ye are my witnesses
3b"A:-. and I (am) God, that I am God.
d) Inferential (then, so then, therefore); Ez. xviii. 32, I delight not in
the death of him that dieth — ttni therefore turn ye. In this sense it
may stand even at the beginning of a sentence, when it implies an inference
of some kind from circumstances already mentioned; 2 Kings iv. 41, and
he said nip-.rnpt then take meal; Ps. iv. 4,.l:. then know ye; ii. 6, 10;
2 Sam. xxiv. 3.
e) Final (in order that, so that); in this sense chiefly with the cohortative or jussive (~ 126).
Of scarcelyiess extensive application are the two relative conjunctions
(prop. relative pronouns) 'It and = -- tl, quod, quum, that, because, —
running almost parallel with each other in their significations, except that
') occurs as a conjunction far more frequently and in a great variety of
senses, while that 'itZ is generally a relative pronoun and takes prefixes.
Both are prefixed, like quod, to a whole clause, standing in place of an
accusative, and governed by the preceding active verb as its object. ttQ
is even preceded by the accusative particle Mr; Josh. ii. 10, rM.:3t,,rTi tg.iqT,-'t~ we have heard (id quod exsiccavit) that Jehovah hath
dried up,-more commonly 't..:rQ, and still oftener E.t.:t. Hence
the following uses of 'n; a) it is employed before words directly quoted,
like the Gr. OZk (very seldom 't, 1 Sam. xv. 20); b) it is temporal==o-e,
prop. (at the time) that, (at the time) when, sometimes passing over to the
conditional power of Mt [Eng. when =if differing only in the form of
representation], Job xxxviii. 5, comp. iv. 18 (seldom A'I, Lev. iv. 22;
Deut. xi. 6),-but often with an accurate discrimination between the two,
well illustrated in Ex. xxi.; c) causal, eo quod, because, fully.3 Aft, 'it 1}!,
propterea quod, also for = ya&; repeated ( -:., Is. i. 29, 30, Ei. —d
because-and because, Job xxxviii. 20), when more than one cause for the
same thing is assigned; d) adversative (in which sense.S only is used)
either a) after a negative, but,-prop. but it is because, e. g. thou shalt not
take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites-but thou
shalt go to my native land,=-for thou shalt go, &c. the former being prohibited because the latter is to be done; or P) where negation is only implied, e. g. after a question which involves denial (~ 150, 1, 2), when it may
be rendered no, but,-but no,-for surely (&lla ya4) Mic. vi. 3. what (injury)
have I done to thee?.... far surely I brought thee up, &c. Job xxxi. 18.
See on ti E. below in No. 2, i.
2. We will now arrange the remaining conjunctions according
to their significations, exhibiting together, however, the different
uses of each wherever it may be first presented. We must here