... Your figure of 26.9% is an overestimation on two counts, as you noted: the figure 13,619 does not include popular wayiqtols, ...
Which are even by Rolf's estimates well over 90% past reference - he found just 998 non-past WAYYIQTOLs, as posted here on 18th August.
Some difficulty in coming to the common ground arises when Hebrew uses
future case in a way intelligible to Russian speakers, but not to English.
Such is Genesis 37:15, “A man asked him, asking, What do you want (future
tense)?” Even in English, the question is oriented into the future.
Ultra-polite Russian equivalent, “Что изволите?” is future.
This does not mean "What do you want?", but "What are you looking for?" or "Что ищешь?", a straight and not especially polite present.
Just a single example of clear usage of yiqtol as past tense or imperfect
would suffice for me to retract. But something clear, like "yesterday he
yiqtol."
Genesis 2:6 YA`ALEH
Genesis 2:10 YIPPARED
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