Biblical Hebrew Forum

[yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>]

{george athas wrote}
>Present tense usually uses the imperfect since it is an incompleted
>action. [end quote]

thank you, intro grammar book. 
are you claiming this as your own testimony that 'present' is usually a
prefix verb? 
ma ata ro'eh? (Jer 1.11)
i've seen present tenses expressed by participles in the bible everywhere,
in all time periods. 
yodea elohim! (gn3.5)
it's much more common than grammarians raised on arabic gave credit. 

try out one of the examples or another verb. see how participles are used
and/vs. prefix verbs.

randall buth