since I have seen thy face; and ψ 318. In the 1st pers. plur. the cohortative includes a summons to others to help in doing something, e.g. ψ 23 נְנַתְּקָה come! let us break asunder! &c., and Gn 113.
[c] (b) To express a wish, or a request for permission, that one should be allowed to do something, e.g. Dt 227 אֶעְבְּרָה may I be allowed to pass through (let me pass through)! Nu 2017 נַעְבְּרָה־נָּא may we be allowed to pass through! Jer 4015 let me go, I pray thee! &c.; 2 S 169; so after לֹא 2 S 1814; after אַל־ 2 S 2414, Jer 1718, ψ 252 (אַל־אֵב֫וֹשָׁה let me not be ashamed; cf. ψ 312, 18, 71:1); 69:15. After אַל־נָא Jon 114.
[d] 2. The cohortative in dependence on other moods, as well as in conditional sentences: (a) In dependence (with wāw copulative; ψ 915 after לְמַ֫עַן) on an imperative or jussive to express an intention or intended consequence, e.g. Gn 274 bring it to me, וְאֹכֵ֑לָה that I may eat, prop. then will I eat; Gn 195, 234, 2456, 2725, 2921, 3025 f., 42:34, 49:1, Dt 321, Ho 61, ψ 28, 3914, Jb 1020 Qerê; Is 519 and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, וְנֵדָֽעָה that we may know (it)! Gn 2628, 1 S 275. Also after negative sentences, Gn 1830, 32, Ju 639, and after interrogative sentences, 1 K 227, Is 4025, 4126, Am 85.
[e] (b) In conditional sentences (with or without אִם) to express a contingent intention, e.g. Jb 166 אִם־אֲדַבְּרָה should I determine to speak, my grief is not assuaged, וְאַחְדְּלָה and should I forbear, what am I eased? without אִם Jb 1918, 3026 (where, however, וָאיחלה is probably intended); ψ 7316 (unless וָֽאֲח׳ should be read), 139:8 f. After the 3rd person, Jb 1117 though it be dark, &c. So perhaps also 2 S 2238 אֶרְדְּפָה if I determined to pursue, then ..., but cf. ψ 1838.
[f] (c) Likewise in the apodosis of conditional sentences, e.g. Jb 317 f. if my step hath turned out of the way ..., אֶזְרְעָה then let me sow; cf. 16:4 f. I also could speak as ye do, if ...! So even when the condition must be supplied from the context, e.g. ψ 406 else would I declare and speak of them; 51:18 else would I (gladly) give it, i.e. if thou didst require it (cf. the precisely similar וְאֶשָּׂא ψ 5513); Jb 610. In the 1st plur. Jer 2010. To the same category belong the cohortatives after the formula expressing a wish מִֽי־יִתֵּן, מִֽי־יִתְּנֵ֫נִי, e.g. Jer 91 oh, that I had ..., וְאֶֽעֶזְבָה then (i.e. if I had) should I (or would I) leave my people, &c.; Ju 929; without Wāw Is 274, ψ 557, Jb 234 (cf. also verse 7).
[g] Rem. 1. The question, whether a resolution formed under compulsion (a necessity) is also expressed by the cohortative (so, according to the prevailing opinion, in Is 3810 אֵלֵ֫כָה; Jer 325, 419, 21, 6:10, ψ 553, 18 (?); 57:5, where, however, with Hupfeld, שָֽׁכְבָה should be read; 77:7, 88:16, and in the 1st plur. Is 5910), is to be answered in the sense that in these examples the cohortative form is used after its meaning has become entirely lost, merely for the sake of its fuller sound, instead of the ordinary imperfect. This view is strongly
