a trace of popular language), e.g. 1 S 2322(?), Ct 55, and (like other indications of the very late origin of the book) very frequently in Ecclesiastes, e.g. 1:16, 2:1, 11, 15, 3:17f. and thirteen other places; in Aramaic, Dn 516.
[c] 2. Substantival subjects also are somewhat frequently resumed, and thus expressly emphasized, by the insertion of the corresponding separate pronoun of the 3rd person before the predicate is stated, e.g. Gn 312 the woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she (הִיא) gave me, &c.; 14:24 (הֵם); 15:4, 24:7, &c.; but הוּא in Is 714 after the predicate and subject is equivalent to he himself.[1]
[d] 2. Not infrequently the separate pronoun serves to give strong emphasis to a suffix of the same person which precedes (or sometimes even to one which follows), whether the suffix be attached to a verb (as accusative) or to a noun or preposition (as genitive). In English such an emphasis on the pronoun can generally be rendered only by laying greater stress upon it, or sometimes by repeating it; cf., on the contrary, the French mon livre à moi. The separate pronoun in such instances is not to be regarded as casus obliquus (accusative or genitive), but as the subject of an independent sentence, the predicate of which must in each case be supplied according to the context.
[e] Examples of emphasis:—
(a) On a verbal suffix by means of אֲנִי (אָ֫נִי) Gn 2734 בָּֽרֲכֵ֫נִי גַם־אָ֫נִי bless me, even me also (prop. bless me, I also would be blessed); Zc 75; cf. also Ez 63, 3411, 20 הִנְנִי אָ֫נִי; by אַתָּה (אָ֫תָּה) Pr 2219 (but the text is most probably corrupt).—The separate pronoun precedes in Gn 2427 (אָֽנֹכִי); 49:8 (אַתָּה, not Judah, thou art he whom, but Judah thee, thee thy brethren shall praise!), and Ec 215 גַּם אֲנִי.
[f] (b) On a noun-suffix with a substantive, by means of אֲנִי 2 S 191, Pr 2315; by אָ֑תָּה 1 K 2119 אֶת־דָּֽמְךָ גַּס־אָ֑תָּה thy blood, even thine; by הוּא 2 S 175, Jer 277, Mi 73; by אֲנַ֫חְנוּ 1 S 2042, after שְׁנֵ֫ינוּ, but without special stress; Neh 52 (?); by אַתֶּם Nu 1432; by הֵם ψ 3811 (without special stress), הֵ֫מָּה ψ 97.—The separate pronoun precedes in Jb 214 (אָֽנֹכִי); Gn 4016, Is 4512, 1 Ch 282 (אֲנִי); Zc 911 (אַתְּ); Jos 239 (אַתֶּם); Ez 3317 (הֵ֫מָּה).—In ψ 8948, where אֲנִי might be taken as strengthening חלד (equivalent in sense to חֶלְדִּי), we should read אֲדֹנָי for אֲנִי, as in verse 51.
[g] (c) On a suffix united with a preposition, 1 S 2524 בִּי אֲנִי upon me, upon me; 1 K 126 לִי... אֲנִי; 2 Ch 3521 לֹֹא־עָלֶ֫יךָ אַתָּה not against thee; 1 S 1923 עָלָיו גַּם הוּא upon him also; Dt 53 כִּי אִתָּנוּ אֲנַ֫חְנוּ but with us, even us; Hag 14 לָכֶם אַתֶּם for you yourselves; Jer 2514 בָּם גַּם־הֵ֫מָּה.—The separate pronoun precedes in 1 S 1223 אָֽנֹכִי... לִי; 1 K 120 אַתָּה... עָלֶ֫יךָ; Mi 51 אַתָּה... מִמְּךָ, and 2 Ch 2810 אַתֶּם עִמָּכֶם.
[h] The same principle also explains Gn 426 לְשֵׁת גַּם־הוּא to Seth, to him also (not גַּם־לוֹ); cf. 10:21, and Ex 3534, Nu 422.
- ↑ Analogous to this is the resumption of a noun dependent on a preposition, by means of a pronominal suffix united with the same preposition, e.g. Gn 217, 2 S 622, 2 K 2218, or of an object by means of the nota accusativi את with suffix, e.g. 1 S 159 (where וְנִמְאֶ֫סֶת is certainly to be read), Is 813.
