6. Backgrounded activities: Participle 7. Embedded procedural discourse 8. Transition marker: wayyiqtol of הָיָה 9. Scene setting: Verbless clause 10. Irrealis scene setting: Negation of any verb by לֹא Similar to narrative texts in most languages, narrative discourse in Biblical Hebrew attempts to relate a story and the developing features of that story. The wayyiqtol (waw consecutive + imperfect) verb form serves as the “backbone” verbal form for moving the Hebrew narrative along, and occurs 84