Bible Lexicons

1. Aposiopesis is the concealment or suppression of entire sentences or clauses, which are of themselves necessary to complete the sense,^[1] and therefore must be supplied from the context. This is especially frequent after conditional clauses; besides the examples already given in §159dd, cf. also Exodus 32:32 (the LXX and Samaritan supply שָׂא‎); Numbers 5:20, Judges 9:16 (in verse 19, after a long parenthesis, an imperative follows as the apodosis to this conditional clause); 1 Samuel 12:14 f., 2 Samuel 5:8 (where indeed the text is probably very corrupt; cf. the addition in 1 Chronicles 11:6); 2 Samuel 23:17, Psalms 27:13, 1 Chronicles 4:10. For other examples of various kinds, see §117l, and especially §147; in Aramaic, Daniel 3:15.—On Genesis 3:22, cf. §152w at the end.

2. Anacoluthon is the change from a construction which has been already begun to one of a different kind. It is found especially after long parentheses, because the speaker has either lost sight of the beginning of his sentence, or for the sake of clearness purposely makes a new beginning; thus Genesis 20:13, Genesis 31:52 and Ezekiel 34:10 (cf. §149 at the end); Numbers 14:21, Numbers 32:20, Deuteronomy 17:2, Deuteronomy 24:1, Deuteronomy 29:21, Judges 10:11 (where, after a series of intermediate sentences, the predicate I saved you is suppressed; but the text can hardly be correct); perhaps also Isaiah 66:18 (cf., however, Delitzsch on the passage, which is certainly corrupt).^[2] On Genesis 23:13 (לוּ‎ with the imperative), see §110e.

3. We may mention as instructive examples of involved series of sentences Genesis 24:14 and v. ^{42 ff.}, and Genesis 28:6