Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew, A Biblical Hebrew Study Group

168 Pages·2014·1.15 MB·English

by  Edward Rice

Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew,
A Biblical Hebrew Study Group - Ed's Journal
by Pastor Edward Rice
Copyright © 2013 by Pastor Edward Rice English Scripture
quotations are taken from the Authorized King James Bible.
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Dedication
My journey into Biblical Hebrew is journaled here
with the expectation that my children and my
children's children will soon walk this path. Only
loving the Lord their God with all their heart, with all
their soul, and with all their mind would take them
down such a path. I have no greater joy than to know
that my children walk in truth.
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Table of Contents
Dedication iii
Acknowledgments vi
Forward vii
Preface ix
Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Quiz Chapter 1 ....................................................................6
Chapter 2 Biblical Hebrew's Alphbet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Quiz Chapter 2 ..................................................................12
Chapter 3 Biblical Hebrew's Vowels and Syllables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 3 Vocabulary..........................................................19
Quiz Chapter 3 ..................................................................21
Chapter 4 Biblical Hebrew's Plural Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Chapter 4 Vocabulary..........................................................29
Quiz Chapter 4 ..................................................................31
Chapter 5 Biblical Hebrew's Definite Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 5 Vocabulary .........................................................37
Quiz Chapter 5 ..................................................................39
Chapter 6 Biblical Hebrew's Prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 6 Vocabulary..........................................................48
Chapter 7 Biblical Hebrew's Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Chapter 7 Vocabulary..........................................................52
Chapter 8 Biblical Hebrew's Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Chapter 8 Vocabulary..........................................................59
Chapter 9 Hebrew Pronominal Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 9 Vocabulary..........................................................63
Chapter 10 Hebrew Construct Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chapter 10 Vocabulary........................................................67
Chapter 11 Hebrew Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Chapter 11 Vocabulary........................................................76
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Chapter 12 Introduction to Hebrew Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Chapter 12 Vocabulary........................................................85
Chapter 13 Qal Perfect Strong Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Chapter 13 Vocabulary Verbs..............................................91
Chapter 14 Qal Perfect – Weak Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Chapter 14 Vocabulary......................................................101
Chapter 15 Qal Imperfect - Strong Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Chapter 15 Vocabulary......................................................106
Chapter 16 Qal Imperfect - Weak Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Chapter 16 Vocabulary......................................................111
Chapter 17 Waw Conversive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Chapter 17 Vocabulary......................................................116
Chapter 18 Qal Imperative, Cohortative and Jussive . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Chapter 18 Vocabulary......................................................121
Chapter 19 Pronominal Suffixes on Hebrew Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Chapter 19 Vocabulary......................................................126
Chapter 20 Qal Infinitive Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Chapter 20 Vocabulary......................................................127
Chapter 21 Qal Infinitive Absolute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Chapter 21 Vocabulary......................................................129
Chapter 22 Qal Participle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Chapter 22 Vocabulary......................................................131
Chapter 23 Issues of Sentence Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Chapter 24 The Niphal Stem – Strong Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Chapter 25 The Niphal Stem – Weak Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Appendix BST Hebrew-English Font Keyboard Map . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Appendix Study Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Appendix Psalm Reading Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
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Acknowledgments
In my teen years at Tuscorora Baptist Church outside
Addison NY, it was pointed out to me that Psalm 119 was an
acrostic with groupings of 8 verses all starting with the 22
letters of the Hebrew Alphbet and that the Hebrew Alphbet has
no vowels only consonants, or if you would 'n vwls nly
cnsnnts.' Skeptic of both declarations I determined then that I
would someday learn Biblical Hebrew. Seminary training and
learning priorities required a year of Greek first. Therein I
understood the challenge of learning Biblical languages but I
also tasted the joy. Professor Rodney Decker, of Bible Baptist
Seminary in Clark Summit Pennsylvania wrote in my
Trinitarian Bible Society Greek New Testament (I refused to
use their Nestles Version) “Remember Luther's comment that
the biblical languages, Greek and Hebrew, are the sheath in
which the sword of the Spirit rests.” After my Masters of
Theological studies and before my Doctorate of Philosophy in
the same commenced, at age 60 and well after lost skepticism, I
determined via self study to pursue that teenage goal.
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Forward
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Preface
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