Continuous or repetitive? How many times, in your Gen2 examples, the earth was watered? ...
Continuously, every day.
Every day? At any rate, no more than one day. Then the earth became watered, and the action became inessential. ...
Until the sun shone, the ground dried up, and the trees in the garden started to wither. Hey, surely that can happen even in Russia in summer, if you don't water a garden or park at least every few days.
Peter, you attempt to slip out. The text contains no implication of the continuous action whatsoever. ...
Its etymology, like that of "will", is a verb meaning "want", as in "he willed it to happen" - the remaining rare use of "will" as an independent verb has a regularised morphology but certainly the same origin.
Nope. "Want" produced "will," and "will" produced "would."
Anyway, etymology is largely irrelevant to current meaning.
Sure enough. And narrators employing ci-yiqtol did not dwell into its etymological future tense. ...
... Note that deictic shifts and idioms are expectedly unusually common in emphatic decidedly archaic narration like than in Tanakh.
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