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 &c. (so, ), with a frequentative perfect consecutive. The perfect consecutive is very frequently used to announce future actions or events after simple expressions of time of any kind; thus, (after  with the infinitive), cf. also such examples as, , , , (numerous frequentative perfects consecutive after the infinitive with a preposition; so , see above, ee); , , , ; moreover, , , , ; even after single disconnected words, e.g.   (when it becomes evening) then ye shall know; cf. verse 7,, ,.

6. Finally there still remains a number of passages which cannot be classed with any of those hitherto mentioned. Of these, some are due to the influence of Aramaic modes of expression, while in others the text is evidently corrupt. In a few instances we can do no more than merely call attention to the incorrectness of the expression. (We are not of course concerned here with the cases—usually occurring in dependent clauses—in which a 2nd pers. perf. with Wāw copulative is simply co-ordinate with what precedes, as in, and probably , .)

(a) The influence of the Aramaic construction of the perfect with as the narrative tense, instead of the Hebrew imperfect consecutive (cf. Kautzsch,, ), is certainly to be traced in Qoheleth, and sporadically in other very late books, perhaps also in a few passages in the hooks of Kings, which are open to the suspicion of being due to later interpolation; so probably  ;   ; 14:14  (in the parallel passage, , the word is wanting);  , &c.; verse 10 , &c.; verse 12 , &c.; verse 15 , &c. Cf. also, 7, 10.

(b) The text is certainly corrupt in (read with the LXX and Vulgate