Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Polycarp66 AT aol.com]

In a message dated 10/23/2002 9:46:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca writes:

> dear experts on hebrew tense and aspect,
>
> can you tell me what tense (past, present, future) and/or aspect 
> ((im)perfect(ive)) the following is, for the verb "believe"...
>
> "they appear not to have been able to believe"
>
> i assume this is 3pl, and a negative. maybe appearative mood ...?


Not to set myself up as an expert, but I think anyone would need to have more information than you have provided.  Do you have a particular passage in mind?

gfsomsel