Ez 42; after מָאתַ֫יִם 1 S 25, 1 K 7; after אֶ֫לֶף 1 S 25, 1 K 3, 5, 2 K 3, ψ 90; after אֲלָפִים 1 S 17, Jb 42; after אַלְפֵי Mi 6; after אַלְפַּ֫יִם Is 36.— In Dn 12 the plural יָמִים precedes the numeral twelve hundred.
[h] 3. Numerals compounded of tens and units (like 21, 62) take the object numbered either after them in the singular (in the accusative), e.g. Gn 5 שְׁתַּ֫יִם וְשִׁשִּׁים שָׁנָה two and sixty years (שָׁנָה in the singular, according to e, since it conforms to the ten immediately preceding; but also שְׁלשִׁים וּשְׁמֹנֶה שָׁנָה Dt 2), or before them in the plural, especially in the later Books, Dn 9, &c.; or the object is repeated (but only in 1 K 6, and the Priestly Code; sometimes even several times, e.g. Gn 23, 25, 17 thrice) in the plural with the units, and in the singular with the tens and hundreds, e.g. Gn 12 חָמֵשׁ שָׁנִים וְשִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה seventy and five years; Gn 23 מֵאָה שֶׁנָה וְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה וְשֶׁ֫בַע שָׁנִים an hundred and twenty and seven years. Cf. Gn 5
[i] Rem. 1. It may further be remarked with regard to the order, that the thousand or thousands always precede the hundreds, &c., and the hundreds almost always come before the smaller numbers (in Kings and Ezekiel sometimes, and in the Priestly Code usually, after the smaller numbers), the tens in the earlier Books (documents J and D of the Pentateuch, in Joshua 1–12, Judges, Samuel, Isaiah, and also in Ezra and Nehemiah) before the units, but in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Priestly Code, Joshua 13–24 after the units (see Herner, op. cit., p. 73). After the hundreds the smaller number is very frequently added without וְ, especially in Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel.
On the syntax of the cardinals in general:—
[k] 2. The cardinals are determined by the article, when they refer back (without being connected with the object numbered; cf., however, Lv 25 f., Nu 16, Jos 4, 2 S 23) to a number or list already mentioned, e.g. Gn 2 שֵׁם הָֽאֶחָד פִּישׁוֹן the name of the one (the first) is Pishon; Gn 14 four kings against the five (enumerated in verse 2); cf. 1 Ch 11 f., and the determinate tens in Gn 18, 31 f. A demonstrative with the article may also be added to a numeral determined in this way, e.g. Dt 19 (but cf. also Gn 9, 22, where the numeral and demonstrative are practically determinate in themselves). In the case of the numerals from 11 to 19 the article may stand either before the unit (1 Ch 25, 27) or before עָשָׂר (Jos 4); it is used before all three members of a compound number (273) in Nu 3.
[l] In apposition with any determinate substantive the cardinal number is used without the article, not only when it precedes the substantive, as in Jos 15 (אֶת־שְׁלוֹשָׁה בְנֵי הָֽעֲנָק, where שְׁלוֹשָׁה is equivalent to a substantive determinate in itself; cf. Gn 18, Jos 6, 22 1 S 17, 1 K 11, and the passages discussed above in § 126 x, Gn 21, &c.), but also when it follows the substantive, e.g. 1 K 7, 43 f. עֶשֶׂר and עֲשָׂרָה; the omission of the article may here, as in the eases noticed in § 126 z, be also due to the dislike of a hiatus, but cf. also שְׁנַ֫יִם 2 K 25 after a determinate substantive. The fact that it is by nature determinate would also be a very simple explanation of אֶחָד Nu 28, 1 S 13 f., Jer 24, Ez 10, instead of the more usual הָֽאֶחָד, and of אַחַת 1 S 1 for הָֽאַחַת.
