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An ideal textbook for the first-year Hebrew student, this clear, accurate, and pedagogically sound volume emphasizes the basics of Hebrew phonology (sounds) and morphology (forms). Free of jargon and technical language, Invitation to Biblical Hebrew uses easy-to-understand terminology and intuitive mnemonic techniques, so you can use biblical Hebrew with regularity and authority.

The lengthening or reducing of vowels will be considered later. 2. Long Vowels 1. Long vowels written with Vav or Yod—סוֹ, סִי, for example—are historic long vowels. These vowels never reduce to a short vowel or a shewa.5 2. Historic long vowels may be written defectively (partially)—that is, without the Yod or Vav.6 The historic long Ḥireq-Yod, then, may be written סִי or defectively (partially) סִ. A dot under a letter, therefore, may be a short Ḥireq or an historic long Ḥireq-Yod written defectively.
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