Bit at a time Bible Hebrew -- Genesis 2:1

Genesis 2:1

 

א וַיְכֻלּוּ הַשָּׁמַיִם וְהָאָרֶץ וְכָל־צְבָאָם:

 

Transliteration: Va-y’khulu ha-shamaim v-ha-arets v-khal-tsvaam.

Translation:    The heaven and earth were completed and all their hosts.

Vocabulary in this lesson:

יְכֻלּוּ	They were completed
צְבָאָם	Their host

 

The verb in this lesson is an outmoded form.  About 2000 years ago it was replaced by the verb kll and that form is still used in modern Hebrew.  The Biblical form is an example of the pual binyan, which the passive of the piel repetitive form.  It is the aorist.  It’s not a common verb and the pual is something you won’t see a lot of so I’ll just give this tense for the binyan for this verb.

 

Singular	Plural	Person/gender
אֲכוּל	נְכוּל	First
תְּכוּל	תְּכוּלוּ	Second/masculine
תְּכוּלִי	תְּכוּלְנָה	Second/feminine
יְכוּל	יְכוּלּוּ	Third/masculine
תְּכוּל	תְּכוּלְנָה	Third/feminine

 

So is this the past or the aorist?

 

Right, aorist; you can tell because of the first letters.  Look back at lesson 45 to see it.

 

A “host” is literally an army, so any huge conglomeration of things that are the same.

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