Resources for Biblical Hebrew Grammar

Charts and Tables

Morphology

Short and Long Vowels • small version • color

Definite Article, Simple Vav, and Bound Prepositions

 

Pronouns and Pronominal Suffixes

Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns

Pronominal Suffixes — Summary

   • Prepositions with Pronominal Suffixes

   • Nouns with Pronominal Suffixes • color

 

Nouns

This file includes summaries of regular noun formation, segolates and geminates, and a table of irregular nouns.

 

Syntax

Commands and Volitions

  This table shows which forms are used in Hebrew to express positive and negative commands, wishes, or desires — thus the imperative, jussive, and cohortative.

 

 

 

Verbs

Verb Paradigms • Seow • BBH • BBH cropped

 

Strong Verb Consolidation (BW and Color)

  This PDF is a slightly expanded version of some of Daniel’s work below. Added are the full participle paradigms and the second variation of the Hophal stem. Included are both a black-and-white version and a colored version that helps to consolidate much of what we have learned in terms of the derived stems.

 

Daniel’s Diagnostic and Practice Pages — Strong Verb

  This PDF is contains the whole strong verb paradigm in a number of variations. Included is a single-page table highlighting the diagnostics of the different stems and conjugations. Also included are a variety of practice pages.

 

Verb Formation — Strong Verbs

Qal Perfect and Imperfect

  This table places the Qal perfect and imperfect conjugations side by side with their afformatives.

 

Qal Perfect and Imperfect — Detailed

  These two tables detail the formation of the qal perfect and imperfect conjugations according to the types of sufformatives (open consonantal, closed consonantal, and vocalic).

 

Forms Related to the Imperfect

  This file shows how the forms of the volitional conjugations (jussive, imperative, cohortative) and the infinitives can derived from the imperfect.

 

Verb Formation — Weak Verbs

  These tables organize weak verbs side by side according to their stem for easy comparison.

Qal — Perfect (Old Format)

Niphal — All Conjugations

Piel — All Conjugations

Hiphil — All Conjugations

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Lecture Slides

Included below are any slides I have used in lectures. I have made the slides available in PDF format. Note that after the introductory slide, there is a summary page (or more), which can be printed, and then after that are the slides of the presentation.

 

Bound Prepositions and the Rules of Shewa

  This presentation illustrates what happens when a bound preposition
is prefixed to a word that begins with a vocalic sheva.

 

Pronominal Suffixes on Nouns — Propretonic and Pretonic Reduction

  This presentation covered some of the basic voweling changes
that take place in nouns when pronominal suffixes are added.

  It also accounts for changes that occur when pluralization occurs.

 

Consolidating the Perfect

  Use in conjunction with the Strong Verb Consolidation charts.

 

Inflecting the Perfect and the Imperfect

  Use in conjunction with the Strong Verb Consolidation charts.

 

The Structure of Jonah and Hebrew Poetry & Jonah 2

  Vision presentations the overall bipartite structure of Jonah and more specifically of Jonah 2:3–10 in light of how it reflects the regularities of

  Hebrew poetry.

 

 

Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar

A number of additional resources are provided on the CD that accompanies the Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar. Many of them have been included here for your convenience. You might also wish to visit their website www.basicsofbiblicalhebrew.com.

 

The complete answer key to all the exercises in one PDF file.

 

Appendices

 

 

 

 

 

 

Verb Paradigms

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Verb Diagnostics

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Section 1

 

 

Section 3 — Qal

 

 

Section 4 — Derived Stems

1. Alphabet

charts

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12. Intro to Verbs

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24. Niphal — Strong

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2. Vowels

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13. Perfect — Strong

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25. Niphal — Weak

charts

a b

3. Syllabification

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14. Perfect — Weak

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a b

26. Piel — Strong

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15. Imperfect — Strong

charts

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27. Piel — Weak

charts

a b

Section 2 — Nouns

 

16. Imperfect — Weak

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a b c d e f

28. Pual — Strong

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4. Nouns

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17. Waw Conversive

charts

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29. Pual — Weak

charts

a b

5. Def. Art., Waw

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18. Imperative, Coh, Juss

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a b c

30. Hiphil — Strong

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6. Prepositions

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19. Suffixes on Verbs

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31. Hiphil — Weak

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7. Adjectives

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20. Infinitive Construct

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32. Hophal — Strong

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8. Pronouns

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21. Infinitive Absolute

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33. Hophal — Weak

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9. Suffixes

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22. Participle

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34. Hithpael — Strong

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10. Construct Chain

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23. Syntax

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35. Hithpael — Weak

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11. Numbers

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36. Final Parsing

 

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