[ii] (δ) After אֲשֶׁר with the imperfect, Gn 44 אֲשֶׁר יִמָּצֵא אִתּוֹ... וָמֵת with whomsoever... it be found, let him die; with the perfect, Ex 21 and if a man lie not in wait, &c.; Ju 1.
[kk] (ε) Very frequently after a perfect consecutive (one or more) containing the condition, e.g. Gn 44 וְהֽוֹרַדְתֶּם... וּלְקַחְתֶּם גַּם־אֶת־זֶה and if ye take (or shall have taken) this one also... ye shall bring down, &c.; cf. Gn 33, 42, 44, 22, 47:30, Nu 30, Ru 2, and probably also Ez 39.—Also frequentative in reference to the past, e.g. 1 S 17 f.... וּבָא הָֽאֲרִי וְיָצָ֫אתִי and when there came (as sometimes happened) a lion... I went out, &c.; Ex 33, Nu 10 ff., 1 K 18, Jer 20 (the perfects consecutive being regularly continued in the apodosis by וְלֹא with an imperfect[1]).
[ll] Rem. The perfect consecutive may be used also in the protasis to express a condition when the employment of the perfect consecutive in the apodosis has become impossible, owing to an emphatic word having to stand before it; thus in Ez 14 on account of הֵ֫מָּה; 33:4 on account of דָּמוֹ.—In 1 S 14 the imperfect consecutive, contrary to what might be expected, stands in the apodosis, and when Saul saw any... valiant man, he took him unto him, where וַיַּֽאַסְפֵ֫הוּ suggests the special case, rather than a repeated occurrence; cf. 2 S 15. Conversely, in 1 S 2 (וַיֹּאמֶֹר perhaps a mere mistake for וְאָמַר), 17:35 b an imperfect consecutive stands in the protasis.
[mm] (ζ) After various equivalents of sentences, which contain a condition; thus, after a substantive standing absolutely, or a participle (a casus pendens), Gn 17 וְעָרֵל זָכָר... וְנִכְרְתָה וג׳ and the uncircumcised male (in case such an one be found), he shall be cut off, &c.; cf. Gn 30, Ex 12, 2 S 14, Is 6, and (after an infinitive with a preposition) 2 S 7; in a wider sense also Ex 4, 9, 12, Is 9, 56.
[nn] (b) The perfect consecutive serves as the apodosis to causal clauses; thus e.g. after יַ֫עַן כִּי with the perfect, Is 3 f.; after יַ֫עַן אֲשֶׁר with perfect, 1 K 20; after עֵ֫קֶב with perfect, Nu 14; also after what are equivalent to causal clauses, e.g. ψ 25 (לְמַ֫עַן שִׁמְךָ... וְסָֽלַחְתָּ for thy name’s sake... pardon...); Is 37 after יַ֫עַן with an infinitive.
[oo] (c) The perfect consecutive occurs as the apodosis to temporal clauses or their equivalents, e.g. 1 S 2 בְּטֶ֫רֶם יַקְטִרוּן אֶת־הַחֵ֫לֶב נַ֫עַר הַכֹּהֵן... וּבָא before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came (used to come), &c., hence a frequentative perfect consecutive relating to the past, as in Ex 1; also after participial clauses (§ 116 w), e.g. 1 S 2 f. כָּל־אִישׁ זֹבֵחַ זֶ֫בַח... וּבָא when(ever) any man offered sacrifice, then came,
- ↑ In all these examples (not only in the frequentative perfects consecutive) the original idea of the perfect, which also underlies the perfect consecutive, comes out very distinctly. Gn 44 (see above) implies in the mind of the speaker, If it ever shall have come to this, that ye have taken this one also, then ye have thereby brought me down to Sheol.
