Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide, 2nd ed.

by Miles V. Van Pelt

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 2019

Overview

Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide, Updated Edition by Miles V. Van Pelt is a handy, at-a-glance reference with summaries of Hebrew grammar, paradigms, and lexicon, and more. This book is ideal for consulting during translation and exegesis work and aids Hebrew students at all levels by providing key language forms, word usage, and word meanings. This compact guide summarizes the most important information on biblical Hebrew grammar and has been updated to correspond to the third edition of Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar.

Key Features

• Includes summaries of Hebrew grammar, paradigms, and lexicon, and more.
• Provides key language forms, word usage, and word meanings.
• Summarizes the most important information on biblical Hebrew grammar.

Contents

• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• 1. Basic Phonology
• Hebrew Alphabet
• Hebrew Vowels
• Syllabification
• 2. Nominal System
• Nouns
• Definite Article
• Conjunction וְ
• Prepositions
• Adjectives
• Independent Personal Pronouns
• Demonstratives
• Relative Pronouns
• Interrogative Pronouns
• Pronominal Suffixes
• Construct Chain
• Numbers
• Particles
• Verbless Clauses
• 3. Verbal System
• Qal Perfect
• Qal Imperfect
• Qal Imperative
• Qal Infinitive Construct
• Qal Infinitive Absolute
• Qal Active Participle
• Qal Passive Participle
• Niphal Stem Verbs
• Hiphil Stem Verbs
• Hophal Stem Verbs
• Piel Stem Verbs
• Pual Stem Verbs
• Hithpael Stem Verbs
• Other Derived Stems
• 4. Appendices
• Verb Paradigms and Charts
• Hebrew-English Lexicon

Product Details

• Title: Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide (Second Edition)
• Author: Miles V. Van Pelt
• Edition: Second Edition
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 2019
• Logos Release Date: 2025
• Pages: 259
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Hebrew language › Grammar
• ISBNs: 9780310093787, 0310093783
• Resource ID: LLS:BBLCLHBRWSCNMPT
• Resource Type: Grammar
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-10T04:35:14Z

About Miles V. Van Pelt

Dr. Miles V. Van Pelt is Alan Belcher Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages and academic dean for the Jackson campus of Reformed Theological Seminary. He has taught at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts and at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.

He has a deep commitment to and passion for teaching students the Bible in its original languages. To that end, Miles is the coauthor of Basics of Biblical Hebrew: Grammar, Basics of Biblical Hebrew: Workbook, The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew, Graded Reader of Biblical Hebrew, and Charts of Biblical Hebrew.

Van Pelt has also contributed to The New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis and to the Eerdman’s Bible Dictionary and served as the Old Testament editor for Zondervan’s expository dictionary of biblical words, Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Words. At the RTS campus in Jackson, he teaches Hebrew, historical books, prophetic literature, Old Testament biblical theology, and even Greek. He and his wife, Laurie, have four children.