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 vav is separated from verb, Gen. 31:33 וַיָּבֹא ··· וְלֹא מָצָא  41:21, Jud. 6:10.

(b) It continues perf. in sense of Eng. perf. with have. Gen. 3:17 כִּי שָׁמַעְתָּ לְקוֹל אִשְׁתְּךָ וַתּאֹכַל  hast hearkened and eaten. 16:5 וָֽאֵקַל  and I am despised; 32:31. With interr., Deu. 4:33 הֲשָׁמַע עָם קוֹל א׳ וַיֶּֽחִי  has a people heard the voice of God and lived? With neg. 1 S. 15:19 וְלָמָּה לֹא־שָׁמַעְתָּ בְּקוֹל י׳ וַתַּעַט  why hast thou not obeyed, but hast flown upon the spoil? 1 S. 19:17, Job 9:4. — Jos. 4:9 he set up 12 stones וַיִּֽהְיוּ שָׁם  and they are there to this day. Is. 50:7, Jer. 8:6. Gen. 32:5, 1 S. 19:5.

(c) In the sense of plup. Gen. 39:13 כִּי עָזַב בִּגְדוֹ וַיָּנָֽס  had left his garment. and fled; 31:34 וְרָחֵל לָֽקְחָה ··· וַתְּשִׂמֵם וַתֵּשֶׁב עֲלֵיהֶם  … now R. had taken the Teraphim, and put them in the camel’s saddle, and sitten down upon them. Gen. 27:1; 26:18, Ex. 15:19, Nu. 21:26, Jos. 10:1, Jud. 4:11, 1 S. 30:1, 2, 2 S. 18:18, 1 K. 2:41. Is. 39:1 כִּי חָלָה וַיֶּֽחֱזַק  heard that he had been sick, and was better.

(d) After hypothetical or conditional perf. 1 S. 25:34 לוּלֵי מִהַרְתְּ וַתָּבֹאִי  (so rd.) unless thou hadst made haste and come; Ex. 20:25 כִּי חַרְבְּךָ הֵנַפְתָּ עָלֶיהָ וַתְּחַֽלֲלֶהָ   hast thou lifted up thy iron upon it, thou hast polluted it. Pr. 11:2 בָּא זָדוֹן וַיָּבֹא קָלוֹן  has pride come, shame has come (when pride comes then, &c.), cf. 18:3. — Nu. 5:27, Ps. 139:11, Pr. 18:22, Job 9:16; 23:13. In Opt. Sent. Jos. 7:7, Is. 48:18.

Rem. 1. The contrast in such passages as Gen. 32:31 רָאִיתִי א׳ וַתִּנָּצֵל נַפְשִׁי  I have seen God and (yet) my life is preserved hardly lies in the vav, but is suggested by the two events. 2 S. 3:8. Neither is it probable that the vav expresses an inference; Job 2:3 וַתְּסִיתֵנִי  is not, and so (so that) thou settest me on. The ref. is rather to Satan’s insinuation, ch. 1:9 seq.

Rem. 2. It is questionable whether vav impf. has the