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Designed for beginning students in their study of biblical Hebrew, this course book focuses on the Hebrew alphabet, the basics of pronouncing Hebrew, and learning almost 400 of the most common words in the Hebrew Bible. Learning Biblical Hebrew is comprised of fifty lessons and eight readings, using about 1000 verses of biblical text. Each lesson has two types of assignments: (1) speed drills for...

2.2e. Our lesson word will usually appear in the Biblical Hebrew texts without the dagesh forte in the yod, וַיְדַבֵּר instead of וַיְּדַבֵּר as in our lesson sentence. In pronunciation, the strong influence of the vav-patakh unit at the beginning of the wayyiqtol verb form is overcome by the even stronger influence of the doubled middle root letter of the Piel stem. It is as though the Piel stem and the wayyiqtol verb form compete for the pronunciation emphasis, and the Piel wins out. Even though
Rocine, LBH 2.2e