Biblical Hebrew for the Novice

An 11-minute look at the vowels of biblical Hebrew. These were added to the bottom and top of the Hebrew letters in the Middle Ages to help readers know which sounds accompanied the letters in reading. Also covered are some of the other key "pointing" such as the dagesh, which doubled a letter.

A brief orientation to the way the Hebrew Bible is read along with an overview of how an interlinear works.

A 23-minute overview of how to do a word study with the Hebrew Bible especially in view. If we're going to learn about Hebrew, we need to know how words work.

Video covers "and," "the," "in," "to," "as," and "from" as inseparable Hebrew prefixes. 21 minutes covers these "little words" as well as several important independent prepositions and the relative pronoun

A 29-minute overview not only of the two main tenses in Hebrew (perfect and imperfect) but of their "converted" versions (wayyiqtol and weqatal) and the participle as a way to speak of present time.

Although you don't need to learn it because the code will tell you, here is a video overviewing the basic endings of the perfect tense system.

Although you don't need to learn it because the code will tell you, here is a video overviewing the basic preformatives of the imperfect tense system.

A 16-minute run through the seven main Hebrew verb stems: Qal, Niph'al, Pi'el, Pu'al, Hithpa'el, Hiph'il, and Hoph'al.

A 23-minute look at the basics of Hebrew nouns and adjectives.

A 6-minute overview of the key personal pronouns and pronomial suffixes in Hebrew

A 7-minute taste of Hebrew participles. How do they work when they are describing a noun that is there (attributive), an implied noun that is not there (substantive), or effectively serving as a present tense verb (predicative)? In the resources, we learn about the Qal passive participle.

A 6-minute overview of infinitives in biblical Hebrew, including both the infinitive absolute and the infinitive construct.

An 8-minute overview of biblical Hebrew imperatives, prohibitions, jussives, and cohortatives. The chapter also introduces the interrogative he and the directional he.

This 11-minute video explores some of the "weak" verbs in Hebrew that either lose a core letter in various circumstances or modify the normal verb patterns in some way because of a "weak" letter. While you don't need to know much about these verbs (because we're using the code), they are fun!

An 11-minute look at a few Hebrew grammatical features that show up in various genres of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, including the way names can include references to God.