This is especially true with Hebrew where there is historical record that***
people used to believe that the different declensions had time related
meanings, just like in Indo-European languages. Among the “first year lies”
I was taught was that Biblical Hebrew declensions referred to time—tense
and/or aspect. Therefore, were I to read something by an author talking
about tense or aspect as pertains to Biblical Hebrew verbs, I would have
real difficulties accepting that he knew more than very basic knowledge of
Biblical Hebrew language, and that not accurate.
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