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Genesis 3:12

And the Red-one is saying, `The Woman whom you have given close-with-me Himself127 she has given to-myself from out of the Wood, and he has eaten.`126b

Footnote:

126b

ืื›ืœ Eat

Strong's #398 to eat in the complete form. Without the lamed ืœ preposition, we don't take it for an infinitive. The difference between okel and akal is a matter of pronunciation. Which one is it here? The dialogue of Adam uses two verbs in the complete/perfect, so the complete "he ate" maintains the consistency here as well as with the previous question posed in the perfect "have you eaten?" rather than "are you eating?" The expected answer would be "I have eaten" ืื›ืœืชื™ but that is not the case.

ืื›ืœ okel I am eating (incomplete/imperfect, more properly with a vav ืื•ื›ืœ but this creates an identical form with "I am able")

ืื›ืœ akal He ate (complete/perfect)

ืื›ืœื” akalah She ate (complete/perfect)