Carde - How many verb tenses does ancient Hebrew have? I had read somewhere there were not that many, for example to say something about the past you would say something like 'in my fathers childhood...'. Could you throw some light on this?
---In [email protected], <hepa7@...> wrote : The first word of the Hebrew Bible (tanakh) is bereshit or b'reshit ( ~ bresheet). As the first niqqud (vowel diacritic under bet) is sheva, it can't mean in the beginning but rather in (a) beginning. 'In the beginning' would be bareshit (b[e] + ha + reshit)!
