Syllables in Biblical Hebrew

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Here you can learn about syllables in Biblical Hebrew;
how to distinguish long from short, and open from closed ones.
This will be helpful to distinguish between the different types of shewa and qamets.
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[@The_Revealer_7]

I have an important question regarding syllables in the noun: Yehovah, which is a hybrid name for God. Is it possible in biblical Hebrew to take out the syllable 'hovah' in the noun Yehovah and create a Hebrew word with that syllable?
I understand correctly that 'hovah' contains 2 syllables 'ho' and 'vah'? One open and one closed.

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[@harisn6593]

Hallo brother.... I am studying biblical hebrew by myself now, I've studied the consonant and vowels. And now I am doing the syllabification, that's why I watched this video of yours. It is quite confusing for me as a beginner.
You explained that the word beresit has 3 syllables..... be-re'-sit.
The book that I am using explains that the word beresit has 2 syllables......bere'-sit. Because only full vowels that make a syllable. In this case the word only has 2 full vowels.
Why do you use half vowel to do the syllabification? Thank you in advance brother.

[@SolomonsCave]

A very good question, I had to crack open not one, but several Hebrew grammars to find an answer. And I don't have one for you at the moment.
Briefly, these kinds of structural ways of analyzing a language were not invented first (though they are taught first), but were slowly discovered as linguists became more and more familiar with certain patterns in the language. These scholars began to find correlations between patterns and where so able to use one pattern to predict another.
But there are different ways to describe patterns and thus there are different systems by which you can separate Hebrew words into syllables. These can then be used, in slightly different ways, to describe other patterns of the Hebrew language.
That would explain why I found one Hebrew grammar that agrees with what you are learning, another one (the one probably most fresh in my memory when I made this video) that agrees with the system presented here. And a few other introductory grammars that didn't mention it, and one other grammar that mentioned that diphthongs were one syllable.
If I were you, I would stick with the book that you're using and master that system.

[@harisn6593]

@@SolomonsCave well, that's fine. Thanks for responding to my Question.

[@yvonnewalker3910]

We must be reading the same books. No shewa can be a syllable like you said full-letter vowels only. This is the problem with syllabification; it is not like English syllables. Every sound is a syllable but not in Biblical Hebrew. Thanks

[@harisn6593]

@@yvonnewalker3910 yeah that's right. For now I just follow what my textbook explains. I'm using Biblical Hebrew: an introductory grammar, authored by Page H. Kelley. It has been translated into Indonesian language. It's pretty helpful for me.

[@rennyskiathitis8178]

Can someone explain to me how the words El, Elohim, Adonai etc, have syllables that start with consonants? Clearly those are words that start with vowels.

[@SolomonsCave]

Those words (all three you mentioned) start with an aleph.
The aleph is a consonant, but it isn't pronounced, at least not by us.
A few other words (like "al", which means "on") start with an ayin, which is also not pronounced.

[@rennyskiathitis8178]

@@SolomonsCave A silent letter counts as a consonant? I did not know that. Thank you.

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