Pocket Dictionary for the Study of Biblical HebrewOf Greek and Hebrew, Hebrew strikes the most fear in the heart of the Bible student. The alphabet does not look anything like English. The vocabulary offers almost no points of contact with English. The verb system is utterly alien. And the lexicons, grammars and textbooks are wrapped up in a metalanguage--spiked with Latin--that is daunting in itself. For those who feel that studying the English Old Testament is a challenge, the thought of reading it in Hebrew is extreme. Hebrew students need all the help they can get. If you are beginning your study of Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible, this pocket dictionary by Todd J. Murphy is for you. From ablative to zaqeph qaton, it defines the tangled terms that infest Hebrew textbooks, grammars and lexicons. Here is a book that will deliver you from the perils of the Piel and the thicket of metathesis. It is an indispensable glossary that will cut through that technical language--neither Hebrew nor English--that hovers like ground fog over the study and discussion of biblical Hebrew. Now you can devote more time to enjoying biblical Hebrew in all its richness. |
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accent accusative adjective adverb Akkadian aleph ancient apocope Aramaic begadkepat BH poetry bound morpheme canon casuspendens cataphora classification closed syllable compound shewa conjunction consonant consonantal construct context contrasted coordination criticism dagesh forte dagesh lene dialects direct object discourse doubling English example expresses free morpheme genitive genre grammarians grammatical guttural hateph Hebrew Bible Hithpael holem IBHS indicate inflection Joüon jussive letter lexical linguistic literary long vowel manuscript marked marker masoretic mater lectionis meaning morphological narrative Northwest Semitic noun paragogic parallelism passive patach pattern Pertaining phemes phoneme phrase plosive plural predicate prefix conjugation preformative preposition pronominal pronoun pronunciation qamets rabbinic referred Relating relationship semantic Semitic languages sentence shewa silent shewa sound stem suffix sufformative syllable syntactical Talmud Targum term tion tive tradition triliteral triliteral root Ugaritic verbal action vocal shewa volitive moods waw-consecutive wayyiqtol weak verb word writing