Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide

by Miles Van Pelt

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 2012

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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Key Features

• 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

Contents

• 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)

Product Details

• Title: Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide
• Author: Miles Van Pelt
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Hebrew language › Grammar
• ISBNs: 9780310514688, 0310514681
• Resource ID: LLS:BBCLHEBCOMPCTGD
• Resource Type: Grammar
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:04:02Z

About Miles Van Pelt

Dr. Miles 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.