An Elementary Grammar of Biblical HebrewThis is designed as an especially user-friendly volume. Thus it employs largely traditional nomenclature to describe grammatical phenomena. It also deals with the relatively simple noun before taking up the verbal system. Numerous examples and exercises are also provided, all culled from the Hebrew Bible itself, and the lesson vocabularies feature words which occur over 170 times in the Masoretic text. This book is designed to induct the student into the use of a printed Hebrew Bible, a Biblical Hebrew lexicon, and an advanced grammar, as well as a concise overview of how Hebrew fits within the Semitic languages. Verbal paradigms and a subject index are also included. |
Contents
Alphabet | 13 |
Vowels | 16 |
Accents Pause Meteg Maqqef | 19 |
Dagesh Lene Forte Euphonic | 23 |
Gutturals Mappîq Rafe | 26 |
Syllables Silent Swâ | 29 |
Article Waw Conjunction Interrogatives | 33 |
Prepositions Object Marker He Directive | 37 |
Volitives in Qal Cohortative Imperative Jussive | 69 |
Qal Infinitives Construct Absolute | 72 |
Qal Participles | 76 |
Suffixes on Qal Verbs | 79 |
Waw Consecutive Verbal Hendiadys | 83 |
Niphal | 88 |
Piel Pual | 91 |
Hiphil Hophal | 95 |
Nouns | 41 |
Adjectives | 46 |
Construct | 50 |
Demonstratives Numerals | 54 |
Pronouns Independent Suffixed Relative | 58 |
Verbs Qal Perfect | 62 |
Qal Imperfect | 66 |
Hithpael | 100 |
Weak Verbs PeGuttural | 104 |
PeAleph | 110 |
PeNun | 114 |
PeYōdWaw | 117 |
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1cp Imperfect 3ms 1cs 3cp 2mp 1cs 3mp 3fp 2fp 1cp Imperative 2fp 1cp Imperfect 2fs 1cs 3mp 2mp 2fp 1cp 2ms 2fs 1cs 3fp 2mp 2fp 3fs 2ms 2fs 3mp 3fp 2mp 3ms 3fs 2ms action verbs adjectives aleph ayin ayin-guttural becoming Begadkefat Biblical Hebrew consonant dagesh forte dagesh lene Deut example feminine plural feminine singular fp Infinitive cstr fs mp fp guttural ḥāṭēp pataḥ Hebrew Bible Hiphil and Hophal Hithpael hōlem ḥōlem waw Imperative ms fs infinitive absolute infinitive construct inflection Interpret jussive lamedh lamedh-aleph Lesson Masoretic Text mp fp Infinitive Niphal perfect participle pataḥ pe-guttural pe-waw Perfect 3ms 3fs perfect tense Piel and Pual prefix preformative preposition pronominal suffixes Qal perfect qāmes gādôl qāmeṣ qāṭān qibbûş resh root letter s'gōl second syllable segōl şerê šewâ spelled stative verbs strong verbs suffixed pronouns sufformatives šûreq Verse Vocabulary waw consecutive weak verbs word Yahweh yōd