Praesens perfectum
In Hebrew, the Praesens perfectum is the use of the present tense instead of the past tense in the context of the past.
Example: yaktob - "he writes" instead of katab - "he wrote".
Strictly speaking, the verb is called "* yaktob" and is a narrative past tense from ancient times, which is identical to the present tense. Consequently, this is not a "real" occurrence of the present tense.
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- Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. 2000