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SAMARITAN.
NICHOLLS writes:--"Some verbs include, under the perfect form, both a perfect and present tense, ... we sometimes find a future circumstance related in the perfect tense, as something that has actually taken place, the design of the writers in this case was to mark the future occurrence as something already evidently decreed and decided on, and therefore as it were accomplished: thus Ge. 15.18, 'To thy sons have I given the land.'
"The peculiar use of Waw, called Waw Conversive among the Hebrews, is "unknown" to the Samaritans, Chaldees, and Syrians.
"The future tense, besides the force of a future, seems to have the force of a present; as Ge.
37.15, 'What seekest thou?' Ex. 5.15, 'Why do ye do so?'"--"Grammar", p. 93,94.