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 dissolves and vanishes. Is. 40:7, 8, Am. 5:8, Ps. 84:4 findeth, layeth, Pr. 1:7 despise, 14:19 bow; 22:12, 13.

Rem. 1. Exx. of stative verbs. זכר  remember, Nu. 11:5, Jer. 2:2; מֵאֵן  refuse, Ex. 7:14, Nu. 22, 13, Deu. 25:7; בטח  trust, 2 K. 18:19, 20; שׂמח   rejoice, 1 S. 2:1, Is. 9:2; חפץ  to wish, Deu. 25:8, Is. 1:11; צדק  be just, Gen. 38:26; Ps. 19:10; גבהּ   be high, Is. 3:16; 55:9; גדל  be great, Gen. 19:13; קטֹן   be small, Gen. 32:11; עמק   be deep, Ps. 92:6; טהר   be clean, Pr. 20:9; מלא  be full, Is. 2:6, Mic. 3:8; אבל  to mourn, Is. 33:9, Joel. 1:9; אבה  be willing, Deu. 25:7; מאם  loathe, Am. 5:21, Job 7:16; שׂבע  be sated, Is. 1:11; רבב  be many, Ps. 3:2 ( רבה   = become many); קוּה   hope, Ps. 130:5, &c.

§ 41. The perf. is used to express actions which a lively imagination conceives as completed, but for which the fut. is more usual in Eng. — (a) The perf. of certainty. Actions depending on a resolution of the will of the speaker (or of others whose mind is known), or which appear inevitable from circumstances, or which are confidently expected, are conceived and described as having taken place. This use is common in promises, threats, bargaining, and the like. Is 42:1 הֵן עַבְדִּי נָתַתִּי רוּחִי עָלָיו  behold my servant, I will put my spirit upon him; Is. 6:5 אוֹי־לִי כִי־נִדְמֵיתִי  woe is me for I am undone; Ru. 4:3 חֶלְקַת הַשָּׂדֶה מָֽכְרָה נָֽעֳמִי  Naomi is selling the field-portion. Gen. 15:18; 17:20; 30:13, Nu. 17:27, 28, Jud. 15:3, 1 S. 2:16; 14:10; 15:2, 2 S. 24:23, 1 K. 3:13, 2 K. 5:20, Is. 30:19, Jer. 4:13; 31:5, 6, Ps. 6:9, 10; 20:7; 36:13; 37:38. In these last exx. and many others the tense may be called the perf. of confidence.

(b) It often happens, esp. in the higher style, that in the midst of descriptions of the fut. the imagination suddenly conceives the act as accomplished, and interjects a perf. amidst a number of imperfs. Job 5:20, 23 hath redeemed