Bit at a time Bible Hebrew -- Genesis 1:30

Genesis 1:30

 

ל וּלְכָל־חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ וּלְכָל־עוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּלְכֹל רוֹמֵשׂ עַל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־בּוֹ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה אֶת־כָּל־יֶרֶק עֵשֶׂב לְאָכְלָה וַיְהִי־כֵן:

 

Transliteration: U-l’khal chayat ha-arets u-l’khal of ha-shamaim u-l’khol romes al-ha-arets asher-bo nefesh chayah et-kal-yereq exev l’akhlah va-y’hi-khen.

Translation:    And to all wild animals of the land and every flyer of the sky and every creeper on the earth that has a living soul, every green herb for food, and it was so.

Vocabulary in this lesson:

יֶרֶק

Green (n)

 

I’m going to give you all of the verb hayah now even though it was in the last lesson.  Notice that this verb has three of the special letters so of course it won’t look like anything else you’ve seen.

 

Present of hayah almost never appears in a sentence.  The masculine singular, hoveh, הוֹוֶה almost always simply means reality, what exists, what people usually do. 

 

Past

Singular	Plural	Person/gender
הָיִיתִי	הָיִינוּ	First
הָיִיתָ	הֱיִיתֶם	Second/masculine
הָיִיתּ	הֱייתֶן	Second/feminine
הָיָה	הָיוּ	Third/masculine
הָיְתָה	הָיוּ	Third/feminine

 

Future/Aorist

Singular	Plural	Person/gender
אֶהְיֶה	נִהְיֶה	First
תִּהְיֶה	תִּהְיוּ	Second/masculine
תִּהְיִי	תִּהְיֶינָה	Second/feminine
יִהְיֶה	יִהְיוּ	Third/masculine
תִּהְיֶה	תִּהְיֶינָה	Third/feminine

 

 

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