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[b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:2

From: "wattswestmaas" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
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Subject: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:2
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:56:36 +0200

I really mean it, I don't go looking for trouble but:

Genesis 1:2 -- Let there be light and there was light.

My grammar book states ( about the perfect + imperfect sequence): "The vav
consecutive is used nowhere else in the whole hebrew verb system except
here". I.E. Vav with patach.

So? YHi (yod heh yod) being a jussive is followed by exactly the same except
with Vav consecutive, and as I understand it one cannot point the vav in
this manner EXCEPT on a vav consecutive. Yet this second verb is also
imperfect.

Now you can all obliterate my reasoning because as is usual I have to be
missing something obvious.

Regards to you all -- Chris

[b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:2, wattswestmaas, 05/24/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:3, Harold R. Holmyard III, 05/24/2004
  - RE: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:3, wattswestmaas, 05/24/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:3, George Athas, 05/26/2004
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:3, furuli, 05/26/2004
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        Re: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:3, furuli, 05/26/2004
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:3, Peter Kirk, 05/26/2004
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:3, George Athas, 05/27/2004
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:3, UUC, 05/26/2004
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:3, Dave Washburn, 05/26/2004
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Vav consecutive Gen 1:3, UUC, 05/26/2004