usually made thus: אִישׁ וּשְׁמוֹ אִוּוֹב 1 S. 1:1; 9:1,2; 17:12, 2 S. 3:7, &c.; but occasionally אִיּוֹב שְׁמוֹ, a transposed descriptive sentence; Job 1:1, 1 S. 17:4, 23, 2 S. 20:21. 1 K. 13:2, Zech. 6:12. The antecedent is indefinite (1 S. 17:4, 23 is doubtful owing to the obscurity of אישׁ הַבֵּנַיִם), and אשׁר seems nowhere expressed, though after a def. antecedent it might be, cf. Dan. 10:1, and in Aram. 2:26; 4:5. — In cases of identification, as Gen. 14:2, 8 Bela, which is Zoar, the usage is בֶּלַע הִיא־צֹעַר, cf. vv. 3, 17, and often. Similarly with persons, Jud. 7:1, &c. — On the other hand, in giving the geographical position of a place אשׁר is used. Gen. 33:18; 50:10, 11, Jud. 18:28, 1 S. 17:1, 1 K. 15:27, 1 Chr. 13:6.
Rem. 4. The אשׁר is sometimes omitted with and and a verb. Mal. 2:16 וְכִסָּה and (I hate) him-who covers. Is 57:3 וַתִּזְנֶה (seed of an adulterer) and of her-who committed whoredom. Am. 6:1 וּבָאוּ and they-to-whom the house of Is. comes (freq.).
Rem. 5. Some instances of omission of אשׁר in later prose are, Ezr. 1:5, Neh. 8:10, 1 Chr. 15:12; 29:3, 2 Chr. 1:4; 16:9; 20:22; 30:19. — In 2 K. 25:10 rd. prep. את before רַך with Jer. 52:14; and 2 Chr. 34:22 rd. אָמַר after rel.
Rem. 6. The text Zeph. 3:18 reads: those sorrowing far away from the assembly will I gather, which (they) are of thee, (thou) on whom reproach lay heavy (lit. was a burden). Well. suggests מִשְּׂאֵת ··· הרפה so that no reproach be taken up against her.
TEMPORAL SENTENCE
§ 145. The prep. (many of which are nouns in cons. state), e.g. ב, כ, ל, מן, לִפְנֵי, אַֽחֲרֵי, עַד, &c., are joined with the nominal form of the verb, the inf. cons. 2. These prep. become conjunctions when the rel. אֲשֶׁר, כִּי, is added to them, and are then joined with the finite forms of the verb. 3. The rel. element אֲשֶׁר, however, is often omitted, though not usually after strict cons. forms like אִפְנֵי, &c.
