Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 14/09/2005 16:37, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> ...
>
> > Genesis 32:32 "the children of Israel do not eat"
> >    
>
> would not eat
> In Russian, that would be a regular future tense, не съедят
>
>  
Nonsense! This is an imperfective present in Russian as in Hebrew, and 
in the Russian Synodal Bible is correctly translated не едят, 
imperfective present.

> > Genesis 37:15 "What seekest thou?"
> >    
> what would you like to find
>
>  
I don't know what you think this means in English, but the sense is 
clear, that Joseph is already looking and continuing to look, a Russian 
imperfective present ищешь.

>  
>
> > Past tense
> > Judges 11:40 "the daughters of Israel went from year to year"
> >    
>
> would annually lament
>  

But this use of "would" in English, while very correct, is not future. 
The meaning is clearly present.


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