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Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar is unavailable, but you can change that!

Read the Old Testament in its original language. Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew teaches the basics of Hebrew grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. The step-by-step approach offers thorough illustration by means of biblical examples, logically presenting all the basic elements of Hebrew grammar. This study communicates in a clear language, moves at a reasonable pace, and teaches using a deductive...

1. As the name indicates, pe-nun verbs have an initial nun consonant. Examples of common pe-nuns are נָגַשׁ (“he approached”) and נָפַל (“he fell”). 2. Major characteristics of pe-nun verbs a. When the addition of a verb prefix would normally require the pe-nun consonant to have a sheva, the nun assimilates into the second root consonant by means of a dagesh-forte. To say it another way, if + would result in , then
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