TIP OF THE DAY 147: Temporal vocabulary for time and sequence
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POST ISSUE: Practice interpretating temporal expressions.
While in real life the full variety of way to express time are intermixed, interpreting each type of temporal expression separately is a useful tool just as you learned to identify nouns and verbs before all the parts of speech.
QUESTION: Give 5 examples from the Hebrew Bible in which time and sequence is indicated by temporal vocabulary.
SOFTWARE: Approaches to finding Hebrew/Aramaic examples will be shown later.
ANSWER: This list was generated via Perplexity with the question as a prompt.
Here are 5 examples from the Hebrew Bible where time and sequence are indicated by temporal vocabulary:
"בְּרֵאשִׁית" (bereshit) - "In the beginning" (Genesis 1:1)This term sets the starting point for the creation narrative, indicating the earliest moment in time.
"וַיְהִי־עֶרֶבוַיְהִי־בֹקֶר" (vayehi-erev vayehi-voker) - "And there was evening and there was morning" (Genesis 1:5, 1:8, 1:13, etc.)This phrase marks the passage of each day in the creation account, establishing a clear sequence of events.
"מָחָר" (machar) - "tomorrow" (Exodus 8:19)Used to indicate a future time, often in the context of promises or warnings.
"בַּיּוֹםהַהוּא" (bayom hahu) - "on that day" (Isaiah 7:18)This phrase is frequently used in prophetic literature to denote a specific future time when certain events will occur.
"לְעוֹלָם" (le'olam) - "forever" (Psalm 23:6)This term expresses an endless duration of time, often used in contexts of God's eternal nature or enduring promises.
These examples demonstrate how Biblical Hebrew uses specific temporal vocabulary to establish time frames, sequences, and durations within its narratives and poetic texts.
QUESTION: Give 5 examples from the Greek Bible in which time and sequence is indicated by temporal expressions.
SOFTWARE: In Logos this can be done via Louw-Nida numbers which will be introduced shortly.
ANSWER: This list was generated via Perplexity with the question as a prompt.
Here are 5 examples from the Greek Bible where time and sequence are indicated by temporal expressions:
Luke 2:37 - "She was a widow of about eighty-four years (ὡς ἐτῶν ὀγδοήκοντα τεσσάρων)." The accusative case is used to indicate the duration of time, showing how long she had been a widow1.
Mark 13:25 - "In those days (ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις)..." The genitive case is used to express the kind of time during which events occur, specifying a particular period.
Mark 2:24 - "On the Sabbath (ἐν τῷ σαββάτῳ)..." The dative case is used to denote a specific point in time when the action occurs.
Revelation 9:15 - "For an hour and a day and a month and a year (εἰς τὴν ὥραν καὶἡμέραν καὶ μῆνα καὶ ἐνιαυτόν)." The accusative case is used to indicate cumulative duration or extent of time.
John 2:20 - "This temple was built (aorist) in forty-six years." The aorist tense is used here to describe a long-term action as a single, completed event.
These examples demonstrate how Greek uses various grammatical constructions, including case usage and verb tenses, to express temporal relationships and sequences of events in the Bible.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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So far, every time I have tried clicking on your link, such as, "previous tip list L/V 10 Tip of the Day (when it doesn't time out)," I've gotten a "Gateway Time-Out" error and no result. I don't know what "L/V 10 Tip of the Day" is, or whether it would be helpful to me to access it, but since it seems to be pretty consistent that it's not actually available, I can't help asking:
a) What is it?
b) Can something be done to make it realistically available?
c) If not, is there some other alternative that would be practically useful?Thanks!
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It is an index of the tips - it was working when Bradley first changed the location but it is timing out on size. Bradley and Jason are working on it. I have a couple of options if it doesn't get fixed.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Many thanks for the information!
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