He was, he is, he will beWell, Shoshanna, that is the meaning in modern Hebrew. But in biblical Hebrew these verb forms were not tenses, at least certainly not in this simple sense. See the whole recent thread on verbs, from which you might well conclude that the Hebrew verb is mysterious after all. At least, the result of such investigations is that such a phrase is untranslatable without a context.
What is so mysterious about this?
Shoshanna
I would like to ask the members of the list, if there
are any who would like to present what they believe is
the best translation of this phrase.
hayah howeh yihyeh
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