{"id":6552,"date":"2023-04-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2023-04-08T07:56:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T07:56:47","slug":"handbook-of-old-testament-hebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/handbook-of-old-testament-hebrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Handbook of Old Testament Hebrew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel Gosnell Green [1822-1905] & Arthur Lukyn Williams [1853\u20131943], A Handbook to Old Testament Hebrew, Containing an Elementary Grammar of the Language, with Reading Lessons, Notes on Many Scripture Passages and Copious Exercises<\/em>, 3rd edn. London: Religious Tract Society, 1921. Hbk. pp.315. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]<\/a><\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Preface to the First Edition by Samuel G. Green<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Preface to the Third Edition by A. Lukyn Williams<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Part I. Orthography\n
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    1. On Reading Hebrew<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. The Alphabet<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Of the Aspirates<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Of Final and ‘Dilatable’ Letters<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Of the Long Vowels<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Of the Short Vowels<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Of the Simple Sheva<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    8. Of the Compound Sheva<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    9. Of Paradise Lene and Forth<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    10. Of the Quiscent Letters<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    11. Of Syllables<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    12. Of Distinguishing Qamets and Qamets-Chatuph<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    13. Of the Division of Consonants: Furtive, Pathach, Mappiq, Raphe<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    14. Peculiarities of the Gutturals<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    15. Of Methegh, Maqqeph, and the Short Vowels<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    16. Of the Accents: Distinctivies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    17. Of Radical and Servile Letters<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    18. Of Qeri and Kethibh<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    19. Part II. Etymology\n
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      1. Of the Article<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Nounds: Their Classes and Gender<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Nouns: Number<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Nouns: Case<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      5. Nouns: Declension<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      6. Declension: Vowels Changes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      7. Nouns: The First Three Declensions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      8. Nouns: The Second Three Declensions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      9. Nouns: Feminine<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      10. Nouns: Pronominal Suffixes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      11. Adjectives: Degrees of Comparison<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      12. Pronouns: Personal<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      13. Pronouns: Demonstrative; Interrogative; Relative<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      14. The Verb: General Scheme; Scheme of the Conjugations; Afformatives of Perfect; Afformatives of the Imperfect<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      15. The Verb: Qal<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      16. The Verb: Niphal<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      17. The Verb: Piel and Pual<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      18. The Verb: Hiphpael, Hiphil, Hophal<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      19. Recapitulation: How to Identify Verbal Roots<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      20. Moods and Tenses: Jussive and Cohortative Imperfect: Vav<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      21. The Vern with Pronominal Suffixes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      22. Suffix-Forms with Nun<\/em> Penthetic<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      23. Weak Verbs: Verbs with Gutturals<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      24. Contracted Verbs<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      25. Weak Verbs: Quiescent Verbs, I<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      26. Weak Verbs: Quiescent Verbs, II<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      27. Weak Verbs: Quiescent Verbs, III<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      28. Noun Formation: Nouns from Weak Verbs<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      29. The Numerals<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      30. The Particles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      31. Readings, Lessons and Exercises\n
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        1. Nouns and Syntax<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Reading Lessons, with Notes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        3. Select Psalms, with Brief Notes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        4. Passages from Job, Proverbs, and Isaiah<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        5. Passages from the Hebrew New Testament<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        6. Unpointed Passages, to be Transcribed and Translated<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        7. English-Hebrew Exercises<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        8. Paradigms<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        9. Vocabularies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        10. Indices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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