[...]... in their The Vocabulary of the Old Testament (p 8), there are 9,980 distinct words in the Hebrew Bible, over 7,500 of which occur fewer than 10 times My vocabulary lists contain 2,148 words (1,235 in List I; 463 in List II; and 450 in List III), or only slightly more than 21% of the Hebrew Bible’s total vocabulary While that might seem like a rather small 5 Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary proportion... Prof Robert E Van Voorst, who has prepared the New Testament Greek counterpart to this vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew: Building Your New Testament Greek Vocabulary (3d ed.; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001) I am grateful not only for his strong encouragement to undertake this revision of A Student’s Vocabulary, but also for his suggestions for a more user-friendly apparatus In a book... to hear the correct pronunciation of every word in the vocabulary the basic grammar uses, as well as when these words are used in exercise sentences This is reinforced if the students are required to read aloud the Hebrew of the exercise sentences in class, and be reminded about what is correct and incorrect about 1 Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary their pronunciations While this is time-consuming,... 1 For much of this discussion I follow the observations and illustrations in An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, by Bruce K Waltke and M O’Connor (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1990), esp the sections on ‘Nouns,’ ‘Verbal Stems,’ and ‘Verbal Conjugations and Clauses.’ 7 Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary l[p in each of the six conjugations The names and meaningful relationships of these... suffixed stem: dbeK;, ‘he (it) is heavy.’7 It does not occur in the prefixed stem or any of its 6 Waltke and O’Connor, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, 364 7 Note that the translation of a stative verb, even though it is in the suffixed 13 Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary derivative non-finite forms, except the masculine singular form of the participle, which is dbeK;, rather than dbeKo as.. .Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by frequency and cognate, instead of only by the former Also, in the next section on “Some Recommendations for the Use of this Book,” I will be suggesting some learning strategies that I hope might make the presentation followed here more helpful As in the 1961 edition, I have organized all the Hebrew words into three major lists,... indicate their sentence function, i.e., whether they are an xi Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection, pronoun, or preposition Occasionally in ambiguous or potentially confusing contexts I will mark a noun as such The verbs are so obvious that I have left them without any special designation The Hebrew words in this apparatus are all listed in alphabetical... ‘sky’ or ‘earth,’ it is helpful to make an association between these things one sees everyday and their Hebrew equivalents But sound and sight associations do not carry one very far in the mastery of words, so that other devices and strategies are needed in this process 3 Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary Repetition One of the most important of these is repetition: by constantly hearing and seeing... be a useful tool for all students learning Biblical Hebrew, and with that in mind, I dedicate this fruit of my efforts to them George M Landes Davenport Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and the Cognate Languages Union Theological Seminary, New York August, 2000 xiv Some Recommendations for the Use of This Book Students commencing the task of learning Biblical Hebrew are immediately confronted by two major... second, learning the meanings of words in the process of building a basic vocabulary so that the reading and translation of Hebrew can become pleasurable, even fun! Obviously, the first of these is necessary before the second can become satisfactorily achieved, creating an opening for the use of this book In my long experience of teaching Biblical Hebrew, the most difficult initial task is learning how . McKenzie Number 41 BUILDING YOUR BIBLICAL HEBREW VOCABULARY LEARNING WORDS BY FREQUENCY AND COGNATE Prepared and Arranged by George M. Landes BUILDING YOUR BIBLICAL HEBREW VOCABULARY LEARNING WORDS. alt="" BUILDING YOUR BIBLICAL HEBREW VOCABULARY LEARNING WORDS BY FREQUENCY AND COGNATE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE Resources for Biblical Study Edited by Steven L. McKenzie Number 41 BUILDING. example, in Larry A. Mitchel’s A Student’s Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1984). Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary x by frequency and cognate,