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 1315.17 ff., 22:7 ff.,, , , 6, ,  ff.;—(γ) a future participle,.

Rem. An imperfect consecutive in dependence on a perfect or imperfect, which represents an action occurring only conditionally, is likewise used only in a hypothetical sense, e.g.  ...;   (previously, in verse 8 f., hypothetical imperfects are used).—In f. an imperfect consecutive occurs in dependence on a sentence expressing a wish introduced by  (, or so that it were, equivalent to then should it be). Cf. also the examples mentioned above, under l and m, where the imperfect consecutive expresses facts occurring contingently.

G. R. Berry, ‘Waw consecutive with the perfect in Hebrew,’ in ''Bibl. Lit.'', xxii. (1903), pp. 60–69.

1. The perfect, like the imperfect (§ 111), is used with (cf. ; on the external differentiation of the perfect consecutive by a change in the position of the tone, see ) to express actions, events, or states, which are to be attached to what precedes, in a more or less close relation, as its temporal or logical consequence. And as, according to, the narrative which begins with a perfect, or its equivalent, is continued in the imperfect consecutive, so, vice versa, the perfect consecutive forms the regular continuation to a preceding imperfect, or its equivalent.

Rem. 1. This alternation of perfect and imperfect or their equivalents is a striking peculiarity of the consecutio temporum in Hebrew. It not only affords a certain compensation for the lack of forms for tenses and moods, but also gives to Hebrew style the charm of an expressive variety, an action conceived as being still in progress (, &c.), reaching afterwards in the a calm and settled conclusion, in order to be again exhibited in movement in the imperfect, and vice versa. The strict regularity of this