Tenses in Hebrew.

[Maxell]

Are there tenses in Tanakh hebrew?

I readed messianic site, that there are no tenses, but when i ask orthodox rabbi, he says there is tenses in biblical hebrew.

I just thinking if there are no tenses, how translators knows, is something past, present or future?

Who is right?

[Menachem]

Are there tenses in Tanakh hebrew?

I readed messianic site, that there are no tenses, but when i ask orthodox rabbi, he says there is tenses in biblical hebrew.

I just thinking if there are no tenses, how translators knows, is something past, present or future?

Who is right?


The Orthodox Rabbi Is correct....

[Timothy Leary]

Are there tenses in Tanakh hebrew?

I readed messianic site, that there are no tenses, but when i ask orthodox rabbi, he says there is tenses in biblical hebrew.

I just thinking if there are no tenses, how translators knows, is something past, present or future?

Who is right?

Both. Sorta.

The tenses in Hebrew are different than tenses as we understand them in English.

[Augustine2004]

http://www.bible.gen.nz/amos/literary/tense.htm

Correctly translating the ancient Hebrew is a tense business all right. :ducking, running for cover:

[Goose]

I'm still learning Hebrew verb syntax. I've found Hebrew verbs to be more detailed then even English. There are not only tenses, but quantity, objectivity, inflections and such, built into the spelling of a verb.

[Augustine2004]

There's already a thread on Hebrew resources:

http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=890

[Drashi]

Of course there are tenses in biblical Hebrew. Of course the messies don't want there to be tenses because that would really destory some of the subterfuge with the "tweaking" of verses.

You that that "And G-d said" (past tense) could also be read in the future?

Nah.

Eliyahu
(Israel)