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Bible Lexicons
Gesenius Hebrew Grammer
Part 36
§36. The Relative Pronoun.
The relative pronoun (cf. § 138) is usually the indeclinable אֲשֶׁר (who, which, &c.), originally a demonstrative pronoun; see further §138 and §155. In the later books, especially Eccles. and the late Psalms, also Lam. (4 times), Jon. (Jonah 1:7), Chron. (twice), Ezra (once),—and always in the Canticle (cf. also Judges 7:12, Judges 8:26, 2 Kings 6:11), שֶּׁ is used instead; more rarely שַּׁ Judges 5:7, Song of Solomon 1:7 (Job 19:29?); once שָׁ before א Judges 6:17 (elsewhere שֶׁ before a guttural), before ה even שְׁ Ecclesiastes 3:18, and according to some (e.g. Qimḥi) also in Ecclesiastes 2:22.[1] [See Lexicon, s. v.]
Footnotes:
- ↑ The full form אשר does not occur in Phoenician, but only אש (=אֲשֶּׁ?), pronounced asse, esse (also as, es, is, ys, us), or—especially in the later Punic and in the Poenulus of Plautus—ש (sa, si, sy, su). Also in New Hebrew שֶּׁ has become the common form. Cf. Schröder, Phön. Sprache, p. 162 ff. and below, § 155; also Bergsträsser, ‘Das hebr. Präfix ש,’ in ZAW. 1909, p. 40 ff.
