... A starting approach to find which Hebrew verbs are used with past and future reference is to read about the construction of the temple. First we read what will be done, and then we read that it has been done. The principal verbs used in these accounts are YIQTOLs for the future and QATALs for the past. ...
... Theis is a situation that is very similar to Hebrew narratives with WAYYIQTOLs and QATALs. ...
... Please note that the languages are very close. In my list of words from Kirta, between 70% and 80% of the Ugaritic words have Hebrew cognates.That's not really all that close. This degree of lexical correspondence doesn't imply much closeness in other ways. In fact I guess that at least 70% of English words, chosen at random from a dictionary, have Latin cognates which come direct or through Romance languages, rather than from proto-Indo-European. That does not imply that English is "very close" to Latin in terms of syntax and morphology.
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