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The T&T Clark Hebrew Primer: For Revision and Consolidation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Learning Biblical Hebrew can be extremely difficult. Here at last is a book designed to work in conjunction with the many Hebrew grammars available, breaking the complex language into bite-size chunks for revision and consolidation of key aspects of grammar and vocabulary. A. A. Macintosh and C. L. Engle combine insights from teaching Hebrew in both the United States and Europe, and between them...

When the conjunction ו is prefixed directly to a verbal form (and only so) the result is that waw with an imperfect has a past meaning, while waw with a perfect form has a future or present meaning.1 Waw added to a perfect form is pointed with simple sounded shewa and obeys the consequent rules set out in 5a above. Waw added to an imperfect form is pointed with patach, and the letter following is marked with dagesh forte. The first person form, beginning with aleph (which, as
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