Hebrew Verb Parsing Simplified
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- Struggling with parsing Hebrew verbs? Simplify the process with these tips!
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I will be getting all the resources you recommend. They really sound helpful.
Just in case it helps anybody. This is what I have been doing to learn Biblical Hebrew, using the voice memo app on iPhone.
I ask myself a question, and it could be what does this vocabulary word mean in English, or something like what kind of suffix would be used with… And so on.
I always give myself a pause after each question so that I have time to recall what will come next.
This method allows me to review material while I go around and do other things like housework, or artwork or whatever.
I heard people telling me that Hebrew was easy to learn. I thought it would be like Spanish, or French, which aren’t that difficult. But I personally have been finding it very hard to learn Hebrew so I’m glad for any tips.
Parsing = Conjugation,
End form = Suffixes
Imperfect = Future tense
really helpfull!! I need something like this but for binyanims..
מגניב מאוד, תודה רבה על העצות
Thanks, JC. This is very helpful!
Awesome! Glad it helped! Thanks for the encouragement!
What a great help to learn more easily.
Thanks! Glad it helps!
This is awesome. Thanks for the tips.
Glad it helped! Thanks for the encouragement!!
Wow... Nice tips, though my brain still processing everything you've said, but it's really helpful. Can you please make a simple sentences in Hebrew with transliteration and translation. Thanks
That's a good idea! I'll see what I can do. Thanks for the encouragement!!
That's great! Thank you! What books do I need for memorization? I have used the Hebrew Bible ,but I'm still working on learning all the words please help
Thanks for the encouragement! For learning and memorizing the grammar my favorite book is Learning Biblical Hebrew by Kurtz and Josberger. I’ve got a review of it in my channel if you’re interested. It’s a really good resource.
Hi, I just finished LBH by Kutz and Josberger, including the workbook. I'm looking for an intermediate syntax text to go through next to continue my self taught Hebrew journey. Do you have any recommendations?
Hi Ray!
I really like Arnold and Choi's "A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax." Its concise but usually gives enough description. It's easy enough to read through and use as a reference. Another option I like is Waltke and O'Connor's "An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax." It's pretty thick so easier to use as a reference rather than read straight through. Chisholm's "From Exegesis to Exposition" is really good too. Very concise, good discourse analysis (if I remember right!), and oriented toward using Hebrew in ministry. Hope that helps! Thanks for watching!
@@bitesizeseminary thanks so much for the response, keep up the good work!
My main issue with parsing verbs is when it comes to certain weak roots when a consonant drops or assimilates. In other words, it's difficult to refer to the lexical (3MS Perf.) conjugation when you have no idea what the missing letter is. Unless you know a better way, I feel the only method is to memorize the 3MS of any/every verb, along with the rules of every weak root conjugation, just so you can put the pieces together. Any thoughts?
Yeah this is difficult for me too! You may already do this and not really answer your questions, but the way I try to handle a word is look at the front a back of the word. 1) If you've got a preformative then you know it's imperfect and if you have a sufformative then you know it's a perfect. Once you have those you can eliminate them from being the root. From there you can work inwardly to work on identifying your root letters. 2) Then see if you have any other stem markings (like the hireq yod as the theme vowel under the second root letter for the hiphil or the niphal prefix). That can help you either identify a root letter (as with the hiphil) or what is not a root letter (as with the niphal). Then if you're left with three letters those are probably your root. If you're left with less than three letters that's when things get tricky. An easy trick is to let your vocabulary help you here. Does the two root letters look like any words you already know? If that doesn't work or you want to confirm your hunch (besides looking up in the dictionary), then run through some of the common weak root rules (I-נ assimilates, II-י/ו, or III-ה drops out). It's nice to know all the rules, but if you can have a couple of them in your back pocket, it can help you figure out some of the forms. You can always look up the forms you're confused on. If you follow the steps above in eliminating which consonants are NOT part of the root it really narrows down the options you have to look up. This is a really good question! I've been wanting to make a video about this actually so hopefully that will be out soon! Hope that all makes some sense and gives a little help!
I'm currently in seminary studying Hebrew. I'll give you what my instructor gave us, call it a "cheat sheet," it will help with the imperfect weak verbs and helps you reverse engineer which kind assimilation occurred.There are 4 rules: Rule One. 1-Nun-Hireq under the prefix and dogesh in 1st visible root letter. Rule Two-1-Yod there is a sere under prefix. Rule Three-Hollow-qamets under prefix. Rule Four- 3 Hey-No difference on front but missing letter on end/back (*&*$). If you apply these 4 rules, you will able to determine which letter assimilated and put it back for your identification of the verbal stem.
terrible pronunciation. What should that “call” be?
My English is pretty bad too 😁 I was referring to the Qal stem.
@@bitesizeseminary yes, I got that. 😀
Just asking myself why so many don’t want to pronounce like if it were Hebrew 😉
@@tdrs1765 I guess I just americanize everything 😁