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1) "And he spoke (WAYYIQTOL) to her.: `Because I spoke (YIQTOL) to Naboth
the Jezreelite and said (WAYYIQTOL) to him...`" 1 Kings 21:6
See, Rolf, there are different speaking conventions. Russians can say,
"Because I *speak* to Nabot..." about the past event. Deictic center is the
meeting with Nabot. "Speak" is the present tense, no aspects.
Or, "Each time, as *I will meet* Nabot, I say to him..." Now, Russian is
very, very close to Hebrew in its mode of expression. ...
... Your example is
exactly similar: it was apparently customary in Hebrew, as now in Russian,
to use future tense with "as," "because," etc for past reference. ...
... When you read English phrase "Every time I meet Nabot, I say to him...",
you
understand this as past reference - yet you don't dispute that "meet" is a
present tense, or that English has tenses. ...
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