Gnomic

Gnomic means that the action is seen as timeless, universal, eternal or general. Used in discussion of verbs. In Greek, the present, aorist and future tenses can be used to state gnomic facts, for example. In English, the present is often used to express gnomic facts like "the sun also rises".

Examples

 * Aorist example: ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος καὶ τὸ ἄνθος ἐξέπεσεν (the grass withers and the flower falls 1 Peter 1:24) - note that in English this is said in the present tense so most translations render the aorist ἐξηράνθη and ἐξέπεσεν into the present.