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It seems to me there is at least one more option, which I will call:
4) R)$ is a construct but N&Y) is not, and the two nouns are appositive to
each other, yielding the reading "prince Gog, head of Meshek and Tubal." I
view #4 as the most likely, given the considerations I will outline or refer
to below.
In my view, your options #2 and #3 are unlikely. As corroborative data, IAnd it is clear that in Ezekiel the construction is a different one, a construct followed by what might be either an absolute or a construct.
note that in the two verses from Numbers--remember that the two verses from
Numbers and the three from Ezekiel are the only places in the Tanakh where a
form of N&Y) immediately follows a form of RO)$--it is clear that HANN:&IYIM
is in the absolute state and RF)$"Y is in the construct state.
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