Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

1. To my understanding the acts are in the present, it is God who is a-horist.

2. You should be wary of sweeping statements to the effect that "Biblical Hebrew has no tenses". For not only is "tense" vague, but "has" is still more problematic. Consider this: spoken Hebrew, which faithfully follows the biblical verb forms, is agreed to "have tense". How come spoken Hebrew "has tense"? Because teachers insist on it and a student not adhering to their rules of grammar gets his ear twisted.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Sep 25, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Robert Campanaro 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

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