Andrew B. Davidson’s Hebrew Grammar

Andrew Bruce Davidson (25 April 1831 – 26 January 1902) was Professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages in New College, University of Edinburgh. His Hebrew grammar has been continuously in print since it was published and is now in its 27th edition. However, the 24th edition is in the public domain, so if you have difficulty accessing print books this might be useful to you.

My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy available for digitisation.

Andrew Bruce Davidson [1831-1902], An Introductory Hebrew Grammar with Progressive Exercises in Reading, Writing and Pointing, 24th edn, 1932. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1874. Hbk. pp.236. [Click to visit the download page]

Table of Contents

• Preface to 19th edition
• Preface to 20th edition
• Preface to 21st edition
• Preface to 24th edition
• Introduction

1. Hebrew Alphabet
2. Vowel Sounds. Vowel Letters
3. External Vowel Signs, Massoretic Points
4. Coalition of Massoretic and Textual Vocalization
5. Principles of the Syllable
6. The Vowel System and the Tone
7. Daghesh. The Letters B’ghadhk’phath
8. The Gutturals
9. The Quiescents
10. The Accents. Methegh. Maqqeph. Pause. Qere. Kethibh
11. The Article
12. Personal Pronouns
13. Demonstrative, Relative, Interrogative, and other Pronouns
14. Inseparable Prepositions
15. The Conjunction
16. The Noun. Inflection
17. Cases. Construct state
18. First Declension
19. Pronominal Suffixes
20. The Verb. Perfect
21. The Imperfect, &c.
22. Verb Active and Stative (Transitive and Intransitive)
23. Jussive, Cohortative, Waw consecutive
24. Scheme of the Regular Verb
25. Niph’al
26. Pi’el, Pu’al, Hithpa’el
27. Hiph’il, Hoph’al
28. Skeleton Paradigm of Regular Verb
29. Second Declension
30. Third Declension
31. Verbal Suffixes
32. Irregular or Weak Verbs
33. Pe Nun Verbs and Nouns
34. Pe Guttural Verbs and Nouns
35. Pe ‘Aleph Verbs
36. ‘Ayin Guttural Verbs and Nouns
37. Lamedh Guttural Verbs and Nouns’
38. Lamedh ‘Aleph Verbs and Nouns
39. Pe Yodh and Pe Waw Verbs
40. ‘Ayin Waw and ‘Ayin Yodh Verbs
41. Nouns ‘Ayin Waw and ‘Ayin Yodh
42. Double ‘Ayin Verbs
43. Nouns Double ‘Ayin
44. Lamedh He Verbs
45. Apocopated Forms and Nouns Lamedh He
    Doubly Weak and Defective Verbs
    Table of Irregular Nouns
46. Perfect, Imperfect, and Participle
47. The Adjective, Comparison
48. The Numerals
49. Particles

• English-Hebrew Vocabulary
• Hebrew-English Vocabulary
• Paradigms of Verbs
• The Accents
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Hebrew Words