1 Samuel 1:25
And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
either, first, One of the three at the present, reserving the rest for the future. Or, secondly, The three bullocks mentioned 1Sa 1:24, to which the article here added, in the Hebrew, seems manifestly to relate; there being no one bullock there, singled out, to which it can belong. And so it is only an enallage of the singular number for the plural, which is frequent.