[b-hebrew] Ex 3:14
Peter Kirk
peterkirk at qaya.org
Wed Sep 14 18:46:28 EDT 2005
On 14/09/2005 16:37, Vadim Cherny wrote:
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>>Genesis 32:32 "the children of Israel do not eat"
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>would not eat
>In Russian, that would be a regular future tense, не съедят
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Nonsense! This is an imperfective present in Russian as in Hebrew, and
in the Russian Synodal Bible is correctly translated не едят,
imperfective present.
>>Genesis 37:15 "What seekest thou?"
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>what would you like to find
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I don't know what you think this means in English, but the sense is
clear, that Joseph is already looking and continuing to look, a Russian
imperfective present ищешь.
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>>Past tense
>>Judges 11:40 "the daughters of Israel went from year to year"
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>would annually lament
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But this use of "would" in English, while very correct, is not future.
The meaning is clearly present.
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