11-15-2021, 12:29 AM
Jason can answer this question much better than I, and I hope he will. But in the meantime, let me just say that waw can be merely the marker of a new clause, somestimes indicating a complex relationship to other clauses in the same sentence that is best determined by word order within the clause and the larger context. Furthermore a waw joined with an imperfect form of the verb is variously characterized by grammerians, and thus not particularly simple to understand. Sometimes it is merely indicating the continuation of a narrative and need not be translated at all.