Exercises in Hebrew Grammar, and a Hebrew Chrestomathy

Wilhelm Gesenius, Emil Rödiger

D. Appleton, 1856 - History - 361 pages

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Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• Historical View of the Hebrew Language: 2
• Grammatical Treatment of the Hebrew Language: 3
• Division and Arrangement: 14
• OF THE ELEMENTS CHAPTER I Of Reading and Orthography 5 Of the Consonants their Forms and Names: 15
• Pronunciation and Division of Consonants: 18
• Of the Vowels in General VowelLetters and VowelSigns: 21
• Of the VowelSigns: 23
• Character and Value of the several Vowels: 27
• Of the HalfVowels and the SyllableDivider Shva: 32
• Signs which affect the Reading of Consonants: 34
• Of Daghesh in General and Daghesh Forte in Particular: 35
• Mappiq and Raphe: 36
• Of the Accents: 37
• Maqqeph and Methegh: 39
• Qeri and Kᵒthibh: 40
• Peculiarities and Changes of Letters of Syllables and the Tone 18 In General: 41
• Doubling of Consonants: 43
• Aspiration and the Removal of it by Daghesh Lene: 45
• Peculiarities of the Gutturals: 47
• Of the Feebleness of the Breathings and: 49
• Changes of the Feeble Letters and: 52
• Unchangeable Vowels: 53
• Of Syllables and their Influence on the Quantity of Vowels: 55
• Changes of Vowels especially in Respect to their Quantity: 58
• Rise of New Vowels and Syllables: 61
• Of the Tone Changes of the Tone and of the Pause: 63
• Verbs Ayin Guttural E: 64
• Of the StemWords and Roots Biliterals Triliterals Quadri: 66
• The Demonstrative Pronoun: 75
• Of the Regular Verb: 83
• Lengthening and Shortening of the Imperfect and Imperative: 90
• Feeble Verbs Verba Quiescentia: 121
• Feeble Verbs E: 127
• Verbs doubly anomalous: 139
• S1 Derivation of Nouns: 145
• Denominative Nouns: 152
• 90: 157
• Remains of Ancient CaseEndings Paragogic Letters: 158
• Vowelchanges in the Noun: 164
• Vowelchanges in the Formation of Feminine Nouns: 173
• Section Page 97 Numerals I Cardinal Numbers: 178
• Numerals II Ordinal Numbers: 181
• Of the Particles 99 General View: 182
• Adverbs: 183
• Prepositions: 185
• Prefix Prepositions: 186
• Prepositions with Suffixes and in the Plural Form: 187
• Conjunctions: 190
• Interjections: 191
• Syntax of the Noun 106 Relation of the Substantive to the Adjectiveof the Abstract to the Concrete: 193
• Use of the Genders: 194
• Of the Plural and of Collective Nouns: 197
• Use of the Article: 200
• Ditto: 202
• Ditto: 203
• Of Apposition: 205
• Of the Genitive: 206
• Expression of the Genitive by Circumlocution: 207
• Farther Use of the Construct State: 208
• Designation of the other Cases: 209
• Use of the Accusative: 210
• Modes of Expressing the Comparative and Superlative: 212
• Syntax of the Numerals: 213
• Syntax of the Pronoun 121 Use of the Personal Pronoun: 215
• Of the Demonstrative and Interrogative Pronouns: 218
• Relative Pronoun and Relative Clauses: 219
• Mode of Expressing those Pronouns for which the Hebrew has no Proper Forms: 221
• Syntax of the Verb 125 Use of the Tenses in General: 222
• Use of the Perfect: 223
• Use of the Imperfect: 227
• Use of the Lengthened and Shortened Imperfect Cohortative and Jussive: 230
• Section Page 129 Use of the Imperfect with Vav Consecutive: 231
• Of the Imperative: 232
• Use of the Infinitive Absolute: 234
• Infinitive Construct: 237
• Connection of the Infinitive Construct with Subject and Object: 238
• Use of the Participle: 240
• Construction of the Participle: 241
• Expression of the Optative: 242
• Persons of the Verb: 243
• Construction of the Verb with the Accusative: 244
• Verbs which govern two Accusatives: 246
• Construction of Verbs with Prepositions: 247
• Constructio Prćgnans: 248
• Construction of Passive Verbs: 251
• Connection of the Subject with the Predicate 144 Manner of expressing the Copula: 252
• Arrangement of the Parts of Speech in a Sentence Case Ab solute: 253
• Relation of the Subject and Predicate in respect to Gender and Number: 254
• Ditto: 256
• Construction of the Compound Subject: 258
• Of the Adverbs: 259
• Construction of Adverbs: 261
• Of Interrogative Words and Sentences: 263
• Of the Prepositions: 265
• Of the Conjunctions: 270
• Of the Interjections: 275
• Piël and Pual: 52
• 105: 58

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Exercises in Hebrew Grammar, and a Hebrew Chrestomathy
• Authors: Wilhelm Gesenius, Emil Rödiger
• Editors: Thomas Jefferson Conant, Emil Rödiger
• Translated by: Thomas Jefferson Conant
• Edition: 17
• Publisher: D. Appleton, 1856
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Sep 21, 2007
• ISBN: 198157896X, 9781981578962
• Length: 361 pages
• Subjects: History / World