Genesis 32:17

And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee?

Ver. 17. Whose art thou? &c.] Short questions, such as great ones used to ask a See Trapp on " Gen 33:12 "

a Imperatoria usus est brevitate.