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This new edition of the classic introductory Hebrew grammar has been completely revised to meet the needs of today’s students. The new grammar presupposes no previous education in the classics nor in grammar in general, but explains all the terms and principles briefly and straightforwardly as it progresses. It is designed to bring any student as soon as possible to an ability to read the Hebrew...

it is added. In דָּבָר, for example, the accent is on the second syllable (ḇār), and its vowel is long. The vowel of the syllable immediately before the accent (dā) is also long (tone-long). This is the first stress pattern referred to above pp. 23f. In the plural דְּבָרִים, the stress is on rīm; ḇā is tone-long immediately before the accent, but the vowel of the original first syllable is two places from the accent and has been reduced to sheva. We shall deal with the classification of nouns in
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