and Hebrew is the basic form of the article. In English, the article appears as its own word, “the.” In Hebrew, however, the definite article never appears independently as its own word. Rather, it is prefixed to the word that it particularizes. In English, this would look something like “themountain,” without any space between the article and the noun. In Hebrew, the prefixed definite article is ha and the word for “mountain” is har. Therefore, the construction “the mountain” in Hebrew would be