Handbook of Old Testament Hebrew

Today’s free book is Samuel G. Green’s Handbook of Old Testament Hebrew. This third edition was revised after Green’s death by A. Lukyn Williams and is in the public domain.

Table of Contents

• Preface to the First Edition by Samuel G. Green
• Preface to the Third Edition by A. Lukyn Williams
• Part I. Orthography
  1. On Reading Hebrew
  2. The Alphabet
  3. Of the Aspirates
  4. Of Final and ‘Dilatable’ Letters
  5. Of the Long Vowels
  6. Of the Short Vowels
  7. Of the Simple Sheva
  8. Of the Compound Sheva
  9. Of Paradise Lene and Forth
  10. Of the Quiscent Letters
  11. Of Syllables
  12. Of Distinguishing Qamets and Qamets-Chatuph
  13. Of the Division of Consonants: Furtive, Pathach, Mappiq, Raphe
  14. Peculiarities of the Gutturals
  15. Of Methegh, Maqqeph, and the Short Vowels
  16. Of the Accents: Distinctivies
  17. Of Radical and Servile Letters
  18. Of Qeri and Kethibh
• Part II. Etymology
  1. Of the Article
  2. Nounds: Their Classes and Gender
  3. Nouns: Number
  4. Nouns: Case
  5. Nouns: Declension
  6. Declension: Vowels Changes
  7. Nouns: The First Three Declensions
  8. Nouns: The Second Three Declensions
  9. Nouns: Feminine
  10. Nouns: Pronominal Suffixes
  11. Adjectives: Degrees of Comparison
  12. Pronouns: Personal
  13. Pronouns: Demonstrative; Interrogative; Relative
  14. The Verb: General Scheme; Scheme of the Conjugations; Afformatives of Perfect; Afformatives of the Imperfect
  15. The Verb: Qal
  16. The Verb: Niphal
  17. The Verb: Piel and Pual
  18. The Verb: Hiphpael, Hiphil, Hophal
  19. Recapitulation: How to Identify Verbal Roots
  20. Moods and Tenses: Jussive and Cohortative Imperfect: Vav
  21. The Vern with Pronominal Suffixes
  22. Suffix-Forms with Nun Penthetic
  23. Weak Verbs: Verbs with Gutturals
  24. Contracted Verbs
  25. Weak Verbs: Quiescent Verbs, I
  26. Weak Verbs: Quiescent Verbs, II
  27. Weak Verbs: Quiescent Verbs, III
  28. Noun Formation: Nouns from Weak Verbs
  29. The Numerals
  30. The Particles
• Readings, Lessons and Exercises
  1. Nouns and Syntax
  2. Reading Lessons, with Notes
  3. Select Psalms, with Brief Notes
  4. Passages from Job, Proverbs, and Isaiah
  5. Passages from the Hebrew New Testament
  6. Unpointed Passages, to be Transcribed and Translated
  7. English-Hebrew Exercises
• Paradigms
• Vocabularies
• Indices