apposition

IPA: ʌpʌzˈɪʃʌn

(grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
(grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
(biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
(rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
A public disputation by scholars.
(UK) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.

Examples of "apposition" in Sentences

Ec 1: 12 shows that "king of Jerusalem" is in apposition, not with "David," but
I-- literally, "I ... my soul," in apposition; the faithful Jews here speak individually.
I, even my hands -- so Hebrew (Ps 41: 2), "Thou ... thy hand" (both nominatives, in apposition).
An alternative for 4a, assuming we mean Alia Shawkat to be in apposition, is to repeat the preposition:
This verse is not, as some read it, in apposition with "the end of their conversation" (Heb 13: 7), but forms the transition.
Rather, "the glory of the country" is in apposition with "cities" which immediately precedes, and the names of which presently follow.
Thus the clause, "things which are not" (are regarded as naught), is in apposition with "foolish ... weak ... base (that is, lowborn) and despised things."
"Choirs" is so obviously in apposition with "boughs" in the line above ( "Upon those boughs which shake against the cold") that I wonder how anyone could think to take it otherwise than "I am now an old man who not so very long ago was much like a blossoming tree in whose boughs birds warbled sweetly."
Arabs are hereby referred to (compare Jer 25: 23; 49: 32), as the words in apposition show, "that dwell in the wilderness." uncircumcised ... uncircumcised in the heart -- The addition of "in the heart" in Israel's case marks its greater guilt in proportion to its greater privileges, as compared with the rest.