Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide offers a one-stop guide for those who have taken first-year Hebrew to refresh the memory on language forms, grammar, and word meanings. Students who are in second-year Hebrew courses can use this reference resource to assist them in the identification of words in the biblical text and the way they are used in sentences.
Ultimately, this inexpensive reference gives the most important information on biblical Hebrew grammar.
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- Presents the basics of the Hebrew language in an easily accessible format
- Contains new and old material making it perfect for review as well as continued study
- Provides material well suited for those working on translation and exegesis
- Basic Phonology
- Alphabet
- Vowels
- Syllabification
- Nominal System
- Nouns
- Definite Article
- Conjunction Waw
- Prepositions
- Adjectives
- Independent Personal Pronouns
- Demonstratives
- Relative Pronoun
- Interrogative Pronouns
- Pronominal Suffixes
- Construct Chain
- Numbers
- Particles
- Verbal System
- Qal Perfect
- Qal Imperfect
- Qal Imperative
- Qal Infinitive Construct
- Qal Infinitive Absolute
- Qal Active Participle
- Qal Passive Participle
- Niphal Stem Verbs
- Piel Stem Verbs
- Pual Stem Verbs
- Hiphil Stem Verbs
- Hophal Stem Verbs
- Hithpael Stem Verbs
- Other Derived Stem Verbs
Top Highlights
“The Shewa is silent if the preceding vowel is short.” (Page 8)
“The Shewa is vocal if not immediately preceded by a short vowel” (Page 9)
“Type 1 suffixes occur with singular nouns, verbs, and Hebrew particles. Type 2 suffixes occur with plural nouns” (Page 47)
“A begadkephat letter at the beginning of a word takes a Daghesh Lene unless the previous word ends in a vowel” (Page 8)
“If the Daghesh is not immediately preceded by a vowel, it is Daghesh Lene” (Page 8)
Miles Van Pelt (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Alan Belcher Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, where he also serves as the director of the Summer Institute for Biblical Languages and academic dean.
Reviews
3 ratings
Emory Horvath
11/23/2022
This appears to be the old edition. They need to replace it with the new 2nd edition. Much as i usually like old editions better, the new version is an improvement. I'm disappointed -- i really wanted to replace my five marked-up copies of the 2nd Edition with one logos ebook!
Lincoln A. Bovee'
4/14/2018
Dr. Justin B. Stodghill
1/2/2016
