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This is a must have resources for second-year Hebrew students, giving them the necessary practice to gain greater proficiency in using the language for exegesis and preaching. The updated second edition of the Graded Reader of Biblical Hebrew: A Guide to Reading the Hebrew Bible by Miles V. Van Pelt and Gary D. Pratico is a structured introduction to the reading of Biblical Hebrew texts. This...

Genesis 26:2 וַיֵּרָא In the absence of a sufformative, the Imperfect preformative י identifies this verb as Imperfect 3ms. It is prefixed with Waw Consecutive. In this form, the Tsere preformative vowel is not diagnostic of the I-י Qal Imperfect. The stem is Niphal and the verbal root is the doubly weak verb רָאָה. The נ of the Niphal stem can not assimilate into the guttural in first root position. This causes the compensatory lengthening of the Hireq preformative vowel to Tsere (25.7.1). Note
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