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Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Isaiah 44:24

From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: Robert Campanaro <faithreason7 AT gmail.com>
Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Isaiah 44:24
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:08:08 -0700

Robert:

Biblical Hebrew language has no tenses, rather time indicators are found in the contexts.

In the verse in question, the words you asked about are participles, in other words nouns. However, the translation into tense based Indo-European languages comes out much smoother by transforming them to past tense verbs.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Robert Campanaro <faithreason7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

My biblical language is Greek and other than a few words, I know no Hebrew at all. But I have a simple question I was hoping someone could answer. In the Septuagint of Isaiah 44:24, the verbs translated "stretched out" in regards to the heavens and "spread out" in regards to the Earth are aorists, but translations of the Hebrew seem to vary from aorists to presents. What tense are they in the original Hebrew?
Thanks.
Robert Campanaro

[b-hebrew] Tenses in Isaiah 44:24, Robert Campanaro, 09/25/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Isaiah 44:24, K Randolph, 09/25/2013
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Isaiah 44:24, Ken Penner, 09/25/2013
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Isaiah 44:24, K Randolph, 09/25/2013
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Hebrew, Michael Abernathy, 09/25/2013
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Hebrew, K Randolph, 09/25/2013
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Hebrew, Rolf Furuli, 09/26/2013
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Isaiah 44:24, Rolf Furuli, 09/26/2013
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Isaiah 44:24, Ken Penner, 09/26/2013
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Isaiah 44:24, Rolf Furuli, 09/26/2013
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Isaiah 44:24, Ken Penner, 09/26/2013
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses in Isaiah 44:24, Isaac Fried, 09/28/2013