Biblical Hebrew Forum

[yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>]

RE:     Copy of: Re: tense-aspect-mood (was: scient. meth.)

[rolf wrote]
>We could perhaps argue
>for unboundedness by postulating iterativity or habituality, but both
>YIQTOLS in the verses below are stative so that does not work There are a
>host of similar examples. Also the passages below militate against the
>traditional view of aspect.

but these events were iterative. statives events can repeat. see below.

>(3)  Num. 9:15,21 On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud
>covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; and at evening it was
>(YIQTOL) over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.
And
>sometimes the cloud remained (YIQTOL) from evening until morning; and when
>the cloud was taken up in the morning, they set out, or if it continued
for
>a day and a night, when the cloud was taken up they set out.


15 cloud covered [(one occurrence)-past qatal]... at evening it was being
[open-ended yiqtol] over the dwelling ... 
16 thus it would be [iterative yiqtol] ...
21...the cloud would be [iterative yiqtol] from evening to morning and 
would lift [iterative veqatal], and they would set out [iterative veqatal]
...

`ata baHatsi ha-layla. ani `ayyef ve`alai lishon. elex veshaxavTI
venirDAMti . 
layla tov lexulxem.

randall buth