will be added and various modifications made in order to indicate variety of person, number, gender and, sometimes, of meaning. The words tense and aspect are used to describe ways in which verbs function in a sentence. ‘Tense’ denotes a form of the verb where the ‘time’ of an action is indicated. ‘Aspect’ is used when the main idea expressed by the verb is that of completeness or incompleteness of the activity. In the main, the Hebrew verbal system is an ‘aspectual’ one rather than a ‘tense’ one,