Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar

Wilhelm Gesenius

D. Appleton & Company, 1853 - Hebrew language - 320 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 17
• History of the Hebrew as a Living Language: 22
• Works on the Grammar of the Hebrew Language: 28
• Division and Arrangement of Grammar: 30
• Of Reading and Orthography 5 Of the Consonants their Forms and Names: 31
• Pronunciation and Division of Consonants: 33
• Of the Vowels in General VowelLetters and VowelSigns: 37
• Of the VowelSigns: 39
• Character and Value of the several Vowels: 42
• Of the HalfVowels and the SyllableDivider Sheva: 48
• Signs which affect the Reading of Consonants: 50
• Daghesh Lene: 51
• Mappiq and Raphe: 52
• Of the Accents ibid: 53
• Mappiq and Methegh: 55
• Quri and Kethibh: 56
• Changes of Consonants: 57
• Doubling of Consonants: 59
• Aspiration and the Removal of it by Daghesh Lene: 61
• Peculiarities of the Gutturals: 62
• Of the Feebleness of the Breathings א and ה: 65
• Changes of the Feeble Letters and: 67
• Unchangeable Vowels: 69
• Of Syllables and their Influence on the Quantity of Vowels: 70
• Changes of Vowels especially in Respect to their Quantity: 73
• Rise of New Vowels and Syllables: 77
• Of the Tone Changes of the Tone and of the Pause: 78
• OF FORMS AND INFLEXIONS OR OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH Section Page 30 Of the StemWords and Roots Biliterals Triliterals Quadrili terals: 81
• Of Grammatical Structure: 85
• Of the Pronoun 32 Of the Personal or Separate Pronoun: 86
• Suffix Pronoun: 88
• The Demonstrative Pronoun: 90
• The Article: 91
• The Relative Pronoun: 92
• The Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns: 93
• 3841 General View: 94
• Of the Regular Verb 42 In General: 98
• Preterite of Kal and its Inflexion: 99
• Of the Infinitive: 101
• Of the Imperative: 102
• Of the Future and its Inflexion: 103
• Lengthening and Shortening of the Future and Imperative Jus sive and Cohortative Forms: 105
• b Preterite and Future with Vav Conversive: 107
• Of the Participle: 109
• B Derived Conjugations 50 Niphal: 110
• Piel and Pual: 112
• Hiphil and Hophal: 114
• Hithpael: 117
• Unusual Conjugations: 118
• Quadriliterals: 120
• In General ibid 57 The Suffix of the Verb: 121
• The Preterite with Pronominal Suffixes: 123
• Future with Pronominal Suffixes: 125
• Section Page II Of the Irregular Verb A Verbs with Gutturals 61 In General: 126
• Verbs Pe Guttural E g עָמַד to stand Parad D: 127
• Verbs Ayin Guttural E g שָׁחַט to slaughter Parad E: 128
• Verbs Lamedh Guttural e g שָׁלַח to send Parad F: 129
• B Contracted Verbs 65 Verbs פן E g נָגַשׁ to approach Parad H: 130
• Verbs 3 E g סָבַב Parad G: 132
• Feeble Verbs Verba Quiescentia 67 Feeble Verbs אָכַל פא to eat Parad I: 135
• Feeble Verbs פי First Class or Verbs originally פי E g רָבto dwell Parad K: 136
• Feeble Verbs פי Second Class or Verbs properly פי E g רָב to be good Parad L: 139
• Verbs Third Class or Contracted Verbs פי: 140
• Feeble Verbs קום וto rise up Parad M ibid 72 Verbs 3 E g בִּין to discern Parad N: 143
• Verbs לא E g מָצָא to find Parad O: 145
• Verbs לה E g גְלָה to reveal Parad P: 146
• Verbs doubly anomalous: 151
• Relation of the Irregular Verbs to one another: 152
• Defective Verbs: 153
• Of the Noun 78 General View: 154
• Of Forms which mark the Gender of Nouns: 155
• Derivation of Nouns: 157
• Primitive Nouns: 158
• Nouns derived from the Regular Verb: 159
• Nouns derived from the Irregular Verb: 162
• Denominative Nouns: 164
• Of the Plural: 165
• 86b Of the Dual: 167
• The Genitive and the Construct State: 168
• Traces of Ancient CaseEndings Paragogic Letters: 170
• The Noun with Pronominal Suffixes: 173
• Vowel Changes in the Noun: 176
• Paradigms of Masculine Nouns: 177
• VowelChanges in the Formation of Feminine Nouns: 184
• Paradigms of Feminine Nouns: 185
• List of the Irregular Nouns: 188
• Bection Page 95 Numerals I Cardinal Numbers: 189
• Numerals II Ordinal Numbers: 192
• Of the Particles 97 General View: 193
• Adverbs: 195
• Prepositions: 196
• Prefix Prepositions: 197
• Preposition with Suffixes and with the Plural Form: 198
• Conjunctions: 201
• Interjections: 202
• Syntax of the Noun 104 Relation of the Substantive to the Adjective of the Abstract to the Concrete: 204
• Use of the Genders: 205
• Of the Plural and of Collective Nouns: 208
• Use of the Article: 211
• Ditto: 213
• Ditto: 214
• The Substantive with the Adjective: 215
• Of Apposition: 216
• Of the Genitive ibid: 217
• Expression of the Genitive by Circumlocution: 218
• Farther Use of the Construct State: 219
• Expression of the other Cases: 220
• Use of the Accusative: 221
• Modes of expressing the Comparative and Superlative: 222
• Syntax of the Numerals: 223
• Syntax of the Pronoun 119 Use of the Personal Pronoun: 225
• Of the Demonstrative and Interrogative Pronouns: 228
• Relative Pronoun and Relative Clauses: 229
• Mode of expressing those Pronouns for which the Hebrew has no Proper Forms: 231
• Syntax of the Verb 123 Use of the Tenses in General: 232
• The use of the Preterite: 233
• Use of the Future: 236
• Use of the Lengthened and Shortened Future Cohortative and Jussive: 239
• Section Page 126b Use of the Future with Vav Conversive: 240
• Of the Imperative: 242
• Use of the Infinitive Absolute: 243
• Infinitive Construct: 246
• Connexion of the Infinitive Construct with Subject and Object: 247
• Use of the Participle: 249
• Construction of the Participle: 250
• Expression of the Optative 251 ibid 134 Persons of the Verb: 251
• Verbs with the Accusative: 253
• Verbs with two Accusatives: 255
• Verbs with Prepositions X 256 y 138 Constructio Prægnans ibid: 256
• Construction of two Verbs to express one Idea: 257
• Construction of Passive Verbs: 259
• Connexion of the Subject with the Predicate 141 Manner of expressing the Copula 261: 261
• Arrangement of Words in a Sentence Case Absolute: 262
• Relation of the Subject and Predicate in respect to Gender and: 263
• Ditto: 265
• Construction of Compound Subjects: 266
• Of the Adverbs: 268
• Construction of Adverbs: 270
• Of Interrogative Words and Sentences: 272
• Of the Prepositions 274: 274
• Of the Conjunctions: 279
• Of the Interjections: 283

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar
• Author: Wilhelm Gesenius
• Editor: Emil Rödiger
• Translated by: Thomas Jefferson Conant
• Edition: 14
• Publisher: D. Appleton & Company, 1853
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Feb 27, 2007
• Length: 320 pages