...Thank you, Vadim. These weren't hard to find, I simply read my English Bible from the start and looked at the Hebrew for a YIQTOL wherever there was a past continuous or repetitive form, and these were the first two examples I found.
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
Peter, you pointed to interesting, very interesting entries. The funniest thing is that I never had a problem with that verse. Naturally for Russian speaker, I read Genesis 2:6 with two future tense verbs, yiqtol and weqatal. For me, this is the same ci-yiqtol with ci implied. In 2:5, the earth was waterless. Then, [как] поднимется пар; as would raise up, и как (ка-ак) увлажнит, and as would water.
The same is for yipared in 2:10: and the river would open from there. This mode of expression is perfectly conventional in Russian, and in fact common in archaic recitals. It might (in my opinion) or might not be related to deictic shift, but it is possible. English expresses that idea with past tense, but it is future in Russian and Hebrew.
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