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Learning Biblical Hebrew: Reading for Comprehension: An Introductory Grammar is unavailable, but you can change that!

What’s the best way to learn a new language? By approaching it not as a series of facts to memorize but as something alive, with a personality you can get to know and tendencies you can begin to predict. Designed for long-term retention, Learning Biblical Hebrew focuses on helping students understand how the language works and providing a solid grounding in Hebrew through extensive reading in...

shewa sounds like a syllable, it will be easier to treat vocal shewa as occurring in its own syllable. Moreover, a vocal shewa often reflects a historic syllable in which a historic vowel has been lost. Treating the vocal shewa as standing in its own syllable will thus prepare you for anticipating the vowel changes we will discuss in the next chapter. The final syllabification of יֵלְכוּ is כוּ | לְ | יֵ. Right now you have a basic understanding of nearly
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