Biblical Hebrew Reference GrammarChristo H. van der Merwe This work is intended to serve as a user-friendly and up-to-date source of information on the morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Biblical Hebrew verbs, nouns and other word classes (prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, modal words, negatives, focus particles, discourse markers, interrogatives and interjections). It also contains one of the most elaborate treatments of Biblical Hebrew word order yet published in a grammar. This reference grammar will be of service to students who have completed an introductory or intermediate course in Biblical Hebrew, and also to more advanced scholars seeking to take advantage of traditional and recent descriptions of the language that go beyond the basic morphology of Biblical Hebrew. |
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Abbreviations | 13 |
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION | 15 |
Chapter 2 THE HEBREW ALPHABET AND MASORETIC SIGNS | 22 |
A SURVEY | 51 |
Chapter 4 THE VERB | 67 |
Chapter 5 THE NOUN | 174 |
Chapter 6 THE OTHER WORD CLASSES | 271 |
Chapter 7 WORD ORDER | 336 |
GLOSSARY | 351 |
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Index of Authors | 404 |
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Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar Christo H. van der Merwe,Jacobus A. Naudé,Jan Kroeze No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
accent action adjective adjunct adverbs aleph apocopated audible šwâ closed syllable complement conjugations consonant constituent dagesh declension Deut direct object dual entity example Exod express feminine finite verb gender Gloss Sing grammar guttural hātēp vowel Heavy suffix Hebrew Hebrew Bible Hiphil Hithpael Hophal imperative imperfect form infinitive absolute infinitive construct Josh jussive jussive form language Light suffix Lord masculine singular Masoretes means morphological Niphal nominal clause Note the following noun phrase occurs participle perfect plural postconstructus preceding predicate preformative prepositional phrase pronominal suffix refers semantic semantic functions Semitic languages sentence sometimes speaker status absolutus status constructus stem consonant stem formation stem vowel subordinating conjunction syntactic Table translated usually utterance verb stem vocalic vowel indicator Waltke and O'Connor waw consecutive word אִישׁ אֱלֹהִים אֲשֶׁר הַזֶּה הִנֵּה וַיֹּאמֶר וַיְהִי יְהוָה כִּי לֹא מֶלֶךְ שָׁנָה