Sar {...} {...} a prince Tsedek {...} {...} just The Phoenician numerals, so far as they are known to us, are identical, or nearly identical, with the Hebrew. _’Ahad_ {...} is “one;” _shen_ {...}, “two;” _shalish_ {...}, “three;” _arba_ {...}, “four;” _hamesh_ {...}, “five;” _eshman_ {...}, “eight;” _’eser_ {...}, “ten;” and so on. Numbers were, however, by the Phoenicians ordinarily expressed by signs, not words--the units by perpendicular lines: | for “one,” || for “two,” ||| for “three,” and the like; the tens by horizontal ones, either simple, {...}, or hooked at the right end, {...}; twenty by a sign resembling a written capital _n_, {...}; one hundred by a sign still more complicated, {...}. The grammatical inflexions, the particles, the pronouns, and the prepositions are also mostly identical. The definite article is expressed, as in Hebrew, by _h_ prefixed. Plurals are formed by the addition of _m_ or _th_. The prefix _eth_ {...} marks the accusative. There is a _niphal_ conjugation, formed by prefixing _n_. The full personal pronouns are _anak_ {...} = “I” (compare Heb. {...}); _hu_ {...}, “he” (compare Heb. {...}); _hi_ {...}, “she” (compare Heb. {...}); _anachnu_, “we” (compare Heb. {...}); and the suffixed pronouns are _-i_, “me, my;” _-ka_, “thee, thy;” _-h_ (pronounced as _-oh_ or _-o_), “him, his” (compare Heb. {...}); _-n_ “our,” perhaps pronounced _nu_; and _-m_, “their, them,” pronounced _om_ or _um_ (compare Heb. {...}). _Vau_ prefixed means “and;” _beth_ prefixed “in;” _kaph_ prefixed “as;” _lamed_ prefixed “of” or “to;” _’al_ {...} is “over;” _ki_ {...} “because;” _im_ {...}, “if;” _hazah_, _zath_, or _za_ {...}, “this” (compare Heb. {...}); and _ash_ {...}, “who, which” (compare Heb. {...}). _Al_ {...} and _lo_ {...} are the negatives (compare Heb. {...}). The redundant use of the personal pronoun with the relative is common. Still, Phoenician is not mere Hebrew; it has its own genius, its idioms, its characteristics. The definite article, so constantly recurring in Hebrew, is in Phoenician, comparatively speaking, rare. The quiescent letters, which in Hebrew ordinarily accompany the long vowels, are in Phoenician for the most part absent. The employment of the participle for the definite tenses of the verb is much more common in Phoenician than in Hebrew, and the Hebrew prefix _m_ is wanting. The ordinary termination of feminine singular nouns is _-th_, not _-h_. Peculiar forms occur, as _ash_ for _asher_, _’amath_ for _’am_ (“people”), _zan_ for _zah_ (“this”), &c. Words which in Hebrew are confined to poetry pass among the Phoenicians into ordinary use, as _pha’al_ ({...}, Heb. {...}), “to make,” which replaces the Hebrew {...}.[1311]