Bit at a time Bible Hebrew -- Genesis 1:17

Genesis 1:17

 

יז וַיִּתֵּן אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם לְהָאִיר עַל־הָאָרֶץ:

 

Transliteration: Va-yiten otam elohim bi-rqia ha-shamaim l’hair al-ha-arets.

Translation:    Gd put them in the raqia of the heaven to shed light on the earth.

Letters in this lesson:

Vocabulary in this lesson:

וַיִּתֵּן	He put
אֹתָם	them (direct object)

 

The verb in this sentence is an important one and since it is in the aorist, and the aorist looks like the future tense, I’ll give you the conjugation.

 

Here is the aorist tense of liten (root letters nun tav nun), to give, put, set.

 

Singular	Plural	Person/gender
אֶתֵּן	נִתֵּן	First
תִּתֵּן	תִּתְּנוּ	Second/masculine
תִּתְּנִי	תִּתֵּנָּה	Second/feminine
יִתֵּן	יִתְּנוּ	Third/masculine
תִּתֵּן	תִּתֵּנָּה	Third/feminine

 

 

Notice that the nun at the start of the root disappears in every form.  The nun at the start of the first person plural is a marker of the first person plural, not a letter of the root. 

 

There’s a second very important form in this verse and I’ll cover it in a separate lesson because right now I want you to concentrate on learning what the aorist looks like.

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