Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Kimmo Huovila <kimmo.huovila AT helsinki.fi>]

Though not directly addressing your questions, I do not think there is
anything aspectually strange in WO's example of 1 Sam. 18:30. David met
with more success (in a perfective sense) - and this as often as they
came out.

So we have here a perfective situation coded with a perfective aspect
that is opened (made imperfective) by iteration (as often as). The verb
gets its aspect from the inner, perfective layer, not the iterated
imperfective one.

I hope this helps.

Kimmo

Joseph Brian Tucker wrote:
> 
> Shalom
> 
> WO page 486, discussing Fientive Verbs mentions "the prefective sense may
> be...complex" and he quotes 1 Sam. 18:30 as an example, "As often as they
> came out, David *met with* more *success* than all the (other) servants of
> Saul." (1 Sam. 18:30)<shakal>