(left him from fear). So the brief language, 1 S. 15:23, rejected thee מִמֶּלֶךְ from (being) king, cf. v. 26 מִֽהְיוֹת מ׳; 1 K. 15:13 removed her מִגְּבִירָה from being queen-mother. Is. 7:8; 17:1, Hos. 9:12, Jer. 48:2, Ps. 83:5. Ps. 55:19 פָּדָה בְשָׁלוֹם redeemed (so as to be) in peace, Ps. 23:6? 1 S. 22:4 וַיַּנְחֵם אֶת־פְּנֵי מֶלֶךְ מ׳ led them (so that they were) in the presence of the king of Moab.
Rem. 1. The prepp. are either, (a) of rest in, as ב; (b) of motion in the direction of, as אל, ל, עד; (c) of motion away from, as מן; or (d) of the expression of other relations, as על over, above, upon, תחת under, &c. In addition there are compound prepp., mostly with אל or מן as first element. See the Lexx. Only a few points can be noticed.
(a) Prep. ב is either in, within (Ar. fî), or, at, on of contact (Ar. bi). Most of its uses are reducible to these two senses, e.g. בַּבַּיִת in the house, בָּאָרֶץ, בָּהָר in, on the mountain; of time, בַּבֹּקֶר. Hence its use with verbs to touch נָנַע, to cleave to דָּבֵק, to hold אָחַז, תָּמַךְ. From the sense of in (in the sphere of, embodied in) comes its use with pred. (beth essentiæ), as Ps. 68:5 בְּיָהּ שְׁמוֹ (in) Jah is his name, Ex. 18:4 God בְּעֶזְרִי is (in) my help, Ps. 35:2. And otherwise, Ex. 6:3 I appeared בְּאֵל שַׁדַּי as E1 shaddai, Is. 40:10 בְּחָזָק as a strong one, Ps. 39:7 as an image; Ps. 37:20; 146:5, Pr. 3:26, Job 23:13, Lev. 17:11. With ptcp. the plur. is used, though ref. be to a single person, Jud. 11:35 בְּעֹֽכְרַי among my troublers = my troubler, Ps. 54:6; 118:7; 99:6 as (being) his priests, cf. Hos. 11:4. So other allied senses, e.g. where we use with, בְּחֵיל כָּבֵד with a great army (in, in the element of; less naturally of contact, and so accompaniment), בְּמַקְלִי with my staff, Gen. 32:11; so with of instrument, Mic. 4:14 בַּשֵּׁבֶט with the rod, Is. 10:24, 34; of persons, in, through, Hos. 1:7 בַּֽיהוה through Je., Gen. 9:6. Similar is ב of price, Gen. 30:16, בְּדֽוּדָאֵי בְנִי for (with) the mandrakes, v. 26, 33:19; 37:28 , 1 K. 10:29. Finally ב has partitive sense, Job 7:13 my bed יִשָּׂא בְשִׂיחִי will bear of (in) my complaint, Nu. 11:17, Ez. 18:20. On ב with obj., § 73, R. 6.
(b) Prep. אל expresses motion towards, in the direction of,
