of his own choosing.”4 McCarter’s view is followed in most recent scholarship. Let us examine this issue by first looking at the function of prepositions in Biblical Hebrew and then drawing some conclusions about this particular usage. A preposition stands before (i.e., pre-positions) various kinds of nominals to create a prepositional phrase. The category is quite varied morphologically. Included are a large number of mono- or bi-radical morphemes. Depending on whether a