474 "DM "O why invitation v 5 is needed), 5 10 (sterility of the soil the cause of the desolation v 9 ), 18 5 28 s (proof of the intoxication v 7 ), 31 7 (reason for the exhortation v 6 : the certainty that the folly of idolatry will soon be recognized), Jb 7 21 (for soon it will be too late to pardon), 27 8 " 10 (Job wishes his enemy the lot of the wicked, because this is so hopeless); or '? relates not to the v. which inimed. precedes or follows, but to several, as Is 7 16f - (v 17 specially the ground of the people being reduced to simple fare v' 5 ), 2i 6ff - (ground of the statements v 1 " 5 ), Jb 4* (ground of v 2 ), 14 7 - 13 (v ,(M2 specially the ground for the appeal in v 6 ), 23 10 - 13 (ground why God cannot be found v 8f ), f 73 21 (ground not of v 20 , but of the general train of thought v 2 -"); similarly Gn 4 24 Dt 18" Je 3 o n the reason lies not in the words immed. after '?, but in the second part of the sentence ; or, on the other hand, it may state the reason for a partic. word, Is 28 20 (justifying ' nought but terror' v 19 ), Jb 23 17 (God's hostility v' 6 the cause of his misery, not the calamity as such). Sometimes also '?, in a poet, or rhet. style, gives the reason for a thought not expressed but implied, esp. the answer to a qu.; Is 28" (the mockeries of v 10 have a meaning) 'for with men of strange lips, etc. he will speak unto this people,' who will retort the mockeries, charged with a new and terrible meaning, upon those who uttered them (v 13 );= (no,) for Is 2S 28 (see RVm), Jb 2 2 2b no, he that is wise is profit- able to himself, 31 18 39" (see v 13 "), VM4 M (he cannot do this, v 23 ) for for thy sake are we killed, etc., 130 4 no, with thee is forgiveness; = (yes,) for Is 4Q 25 (see the qu. v 24 ), 66 8 . d. "•a . . . '3 aa-vvbiras sts. introduce the proximate and ultimate cause respectively, Gn 3 19 26 7 43 s2 47 20 Ex 23 s3 for [else] thou wilt serve their gods, for it will be a snare to thee, Is 2 6 - 6 3 s8 6 Stb io 2 " Jb6 3 ' 8 9 " 24 1717 2Q 1 "-; sts. they introduce two co-ordinate causes (where we should insert and), Ex 23 2122 Is 6 5b,c I am un- done, because I am of unclean lips . . ., because mine eyes have seen "• of hosts, I g 66fll!8 -» Zp 3 9 '- Jb 15 s527 20 19 '- 31'"-. But "Ol . . . *? also occurs, Gn 33" Nu 5 20 (if), Jo 7" Ju 6 30 1 S 1 9 4 22 17 1 K 2 M Is 65 ,6 + . e. after a neg. »? for becomes = but (Germ, sondern): Gn 1 7 15 thou shalt not call her name Sarai, n&f ft$f *? for ( = but) Sarah shall be her name, 24 s '- 45 s Ex i 19 16 8 not against us are your murmurings, /yJ ty % 3 for (they are) agst. = but agst. Dt 2i 17 1 S 6 3 (W), 27 1 (v. Dr), 1 K 2i' 7 Is io 7 28 s7 29 30 s V44 8 1 1 8" + oft.; so in 13 X$> nay, for = nay, but, as Gn 18 16 fipnx »| tO nay, but thou didst laugh, 19 s 42" Jos 5 1 * 1 S 2" MSS © (v. Dr), i2 12 2S16 18 24 11 M K2
„22 Is 30 16 nay, but we will flee upon horses.
Mote. — S ig gts. of difficult and uncertain interpretation, and in some of the passages quoted a different expl. is tenable. Authori- ties esp. read the Heb. differently, when the choice is between for and yea. E.g. Is 8 23 Ges E w * •* » dock (no, but); Hi Di for (taking v M as RVm); Ch surely: 15 1 Ges Ew Hi Di surely; De for: 39 s Ges Hi De surely; Di for (expl. of 3to) : Ez 1 1" Hi Ke Co surely; Ew Sm because. — In Ex 20 25 the tense of rbbm makes it prob. that? is for (Dr im ). Jb2 2 M is taken with least violence to usage (DISS) as Hi : When they humble thee, and thou sayest (=complainest) Pride ! he will save, etc. "□N "O (the DN always foil, by makkeph, except Gn 15 4 Nu 35 s3 Ne 2 2 , where DN _, 3 is read by the Mass.: Fr MM241 )— 1. each part, retaining its independent force, and relating to a different clause : a. that if Je 26 15 ; after an oath (*? not translated : v. 'S 1 c) if 1 S 14 39 Je 2 2 M , surely not (DK 1 b 2) 2 S 3 s5 1 S 25 s4 (*? being resumptive of the ^3 before ?v : v. '|lc); Ex 2 2 22 (in apod.) indeed if. . . (v. r? 1 d). b. for i/Ex8 17 yio 4 Dtn 20 -!-, for though Is io 22 Je 37 20 Am 5 22 , but if Je 7 5 . 2 . (About 1 40 t.) the two particles being closely conjoined, and relating to the same clause — a. limiting the prec. clause, except (after a negative, or an oath, or question, the equivalent of a negative) — the most usual term for expressing this idea : sq. vb. Gn 32 s7
will not let thee go; "^ffSS^f *? lit. but
C? 3 e) if thou bless me (sc. I will let thee go), i. e., subordinating the second clause to the first, ' I will not let thee go, except thou bless me ;' Lv 22 s he shall not eat of the holy things 1*0")"^ *? except he have washed his flesh, Is 65" Am 3 7 Ku 3 18 La 5 s1 '• (Ew Nag Ke Che Ot), turn thou us unto thee, etc., unless thou have utterly rejected us, (and) art very wroth with us (= Or hast thou utterly rejected us? etc. Ew Ot); sq. a noun, except, but, Gn 28' 7 this is nothing '£? 1V3"D(< ^3 but the house of God, 32 s he withholds from me nothing ^nin-DK <3 except thee, Lv 21 2 Nu 14 30 (after DN), 2 6 K (cf. 32 12 -nba), Jos 14 4 1 S 30 ,7!B 2 S 12 3 "DK s 3 5>B pt« (so 2 K. 4 s ), 1 9 s9 1 K 17 1 (after DN), 2 2 3l 2K5 I6 9 35 13 7 Je22 I7 44 14 +; after W,
Ch 23 6 ; sq. an adv. clause, Gn 42 16 NU35 83
2 S 3 13 (but DK "<a and V.ob are mutually ex-
