A 15-minute run through the Hebrew vowels of Jonah 1:1.

A 9-minute run through the Hebrew vowels of Jonah 1:2

A 12-minute run through the Hebrew vowels of Jonah 1:3

An 11-minute overview of all the Hebrew vowels in a more systematic way.

A 13-minute video giving a method of "transliterating" Hebrew characters into more recognizable English ones.

A 7-minute video explaining the two different kinds of dageshes in Hebrew

A 5-minute video puts the transliteration skills we have been learning into practice, transliterating Jonah 1:1.

A 13-minute video on how to tell the difference between a vocal and a silent sheva. Accordingly, explains the different kinds of Hebrew syllables and how vowels behave in each of them. Also explains how to tell the difference between the two types of qamats.

A 13-minute video that ties together all the lessons on the Hebrew alphabet, consonants, dageshes, and shevas by transliterating Jonah 1:2-3a.

A quick 11-minute synopsis of Hebrew accents, whose main value is in showing you where to put the stress on a word.

Five more high-frequency words finish out section 2 of the course, as you now know the Hebrew consonants and vowels.

An 11-minute run through Jonah 1:4 with a special view to the Hebrew words for "and," "in," and "the."

Learning basic vocabulary continues with five more high-frequency words, four of which are actually in Jonah 1:4.

These ten vocabulary words are mostly taken from Jonah 1:5 and continue your knowledge of high frequency Old Testament words.

An 8-minute overview of Hebrew adjectives by way of Jonah 1:4.

A 6-minute presentation of 10 more Hebrew vocabulary words, bringing our total to 35 words. These words primarily come from Jonah 1:6 and are high frequency words.

A 10-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 1:7 with a lot of review but also beginning to learn about demonstrative pronouns and adjectives in Hebrew.

A 5-minute run through 10 more high-frequency Hebrew words, bringing our total to 45 words.

An 11-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 1:8, reviewing a number of things but also introducing the interrogative words מִי (who) and מַה (what). The preposition מִן (from) is also introduced.

A 6-minute video of Hebrew vocabulary, some from Jonah 1:8 and some to bring our knowledge to all words used 2000 times or more in the Hebrew Old Testament.

A 10-minute walk through Jonah 1:9 in Hebrew focusing on pronouns. We're close to having most of the suffixes!

A 5-minute vocabulary video with some higher frequency words from Jonah 1:9 in addition to words like father and city.

An 8-minute systematic overview of the pronomial suffixes that appear in the Hebrew Old Testament.

A 10-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 1:10, with a focus on the Hebrew pronouns for "him" and "he."

A 6-minute vocabulary video with words from Jonah 1:10 but also the remaining vocabulary words that are used more than 1000 times in the Hebrew Bible.

A 2-minute introduction of the second person feminine singular Hebrew pronoun הִיא.

A 4-minute look at the 3mp and 3fp independent pronouns in biblical Hebrew.

A 5-minute presentation of the 2fs, 2mp, and 2fp independent pronouns in biblical Hebrew.

A two-minute overview of all Hebrew independent pronouns, adding in this video the first common plural אֲנַחְנוּ

A 5-minute overview of the near and far demonstrative pronouns in Hebrew.

A three-minute look at the independent pronouns again but this time from the standpoint of vocabulary.

A 6-minute video introducing the concept of Hebrew tense using Genesis 1:1

An 8-minute video introducing the "converted imperfect" tense of biblical Hebrew by way of Jonah 1:11.

A 3-minute look at the first two words of Jonah 1:12, reviewing the "converted imperfect" tense and the very common form וַיֹּאמֶר.

A 6-minute look at the second part of Jonah 1:12, focusing on the imperfect tense

A 6-minute video finishing up Jonah 1:12 and introducing the present participle, which is often used to express something happening in present time.

A 7-minute video on the Hebrew of the second part of Jonah 1:13. Introduces the third common plural ending of the perfect tense. It also solidifies the ms participle.

A 7-minute video on the Hebrew of the second part of Jonah 1:13. Introduces the third common plural ending of the imperfect tense. It also solidifies the ms participle.

A 3-minute overview of the Hebrew participle in its base stem, the key of which is a long o after the first letter.

An 8-minute look at the first part of Jonah 1:14 in Hebrew, introducing the first person common plural preformative, nu.

A 6-minute overview of the Hebrew imperfect tense forms for its most basic stem (Qal).

A 9-minute run through the second half of Jonah 1:14, introducing the 2ms perfect sufformative and the idea of weak verbs (1 nun and 3 he).

A 9-minute video diving a little deeper into the kinds of things that happen with "weak" Hebrew verbs, especially ones whose first consonant is a nun or a guttural.

An 8-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 1:16, which illustrates the pleonastic aspect of Hebrew style.

An 8-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 1:17, which is actually the beginning of Jonah 2 in the Hebrew Masoretic Text of the 900s. The "infinitive construct" is presented.

A 7-minute look at Jonah 2:1 in Hebrew, introducing the concept of Hebrew verb stems and the "Hithpa'el" (HtD) in particular.

An 8-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 2:2, learning the first common singular and the second masculine singular endings to the Hebrew perfect tense.

An 8-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 2:3, introducing the Hiph'il stem and especially featuring the third common plural ending of the perfect tense.

A 4-minute overview of the Hebrew perfect tense in its base stem.

A 6-minute run through the Hebrew of the first part of Jonah 2:4, officially introducing the concept of stems in Hebrew and the N or Niph'al stem in particular.

In this 8-minute run through the Hebrew of the second part of Jonah 2:4, we dive into the deep end of stems and weak verbs. We encounter the H or Hiph'il stem and first letter weak verbs first yod and first nun.

A 9-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 2:5, introducing the G (or Qal) passive participle ("being ...).

A 9-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 2:6. The most interesting grammar in the verse is an H stem, converted imperfect of a third he verb, where the he disappears.

A 12-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 2:7, with another instance of the Hithpa'el stem and an infinitive construct.

An 11-minute video overviewing the seven basic Hebrew stems, their names, their basic functions, and the way they look in their simplest 3ms forms.

A 7-minute overview of the seven Hebrew verb stems in the imperfect tense.

A 2 minute summary of all the 3ms forms of the verb stems in both the perfect and imperfect tenses

A 6-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 2:8. It includes a Pi'el or D participle.

An 8-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 2:9. The cohortative command is introduced and in the D (Pi'el) stem no less.

BONUS: A 10 minute run through the Hebrew of Ruth 2:2, which features two cohortative forms and a 2fs command.

A 5-minute run through the Hebrew of the final verse of Jonah 2, finishing the first half of the course, the equivalent of one semester of content.  Two kinds of weak verbs appear in the verse--first aleph and middle weak.

A 6-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 3:1, which is parallel to the first verse of the book. Key features mentioned are the fact that third he goes away in the converted imperfect and the infinitive construct.

A 4-minute run through the Hebrew of the first part of Jonah 3:2, where we meet the irregular 2ms imperatives for קוּם and הָלַךְ.

A 5-minute run through the Hebrew of the second half of Jonah 3:2 with special attention to the 2ms imperative form.

A 10-minute overview of Hebrew imperatives in the most basic Qal stem with strong verbs.

A 7-minute run through the Hebrew of the first part of Jonah 3:3, showing how letters of certain weak verbs (hollow verbs, the verb הלך) tend to go missing in the "converted imperfect."

A 4 minute run through the last part of Jonah 3:3, showing the 3fs form of הָיָה and an interesting idiom "a great city to God."

A 9-minute look at the Hebrew verb "to be" (הָיָה) as a model of the irregular third he weak verb.

An 8-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 3:4, introducing geminate weak verbs and the Niph'al participle).

A quick, 4-minute revisit of the first part of Jonah 1:4 but now knowing a lot more. This video focuses on the Hiph'il perfect in the verse as we get ready to learn the whole H perfect paradigm.

A 3-minute overview of the Hiph'il stem paradigm in the perfect tense.

An 8-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 1:16, which illustrates the pleonastic aspect of Hebrew style.

A 7-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 3:5. We continue to learn about how the Hiph'il stem behaves, this time in the ("converted") imperfect.

A 4 minute overview of the paradigm for the Hiph'il imperfect of biblical Hebrew.

The king of Nineveh puts on sackcloth and sits in ashes to repent for the sins of Assyria. A 10-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 3:6. The 3ms Hiph'il preterit does not have the hiriq yod but has sere instead.

A 4-minute overview of how to recognize the Hiph'il (H) stem in the imperative in biblical Hebrew.

A 10-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 3:7. It has several preterit forms of interest: one in the H stem, two that are third he.

This 10-minute view runs through the Hebrew of Jonah 3:8 and features the imperfect 3mp form of the Hithpa'el (HtD) stem.

A three-minute overview of the Hebrew HtD paradigm for the perfect tense.

A 3-minute overview of the Hithpa'el (HtD) imperfect tense in biblical Hebrew.

We now officially start down the path of the Niph'al or N stem, and learn about a construction sometimes called the "converted" perfect.

An 11-minute look at the first part of Jonah 3:10, which introduces the Niph'al stem in the imperfect tense.

A 2-minute summary of the N imperative (2nd person), the N jussive (3rd person), and the N cohortative (1st person)

This is an 8-minute video covering the second half of Jonah 3:10. In this part of the verse, we encounter a Pi'el or D stem perfect form. The last part of the verse also has an infinitive construct.

A 3-minute run through the imperfect paradigm of the Pi'el (D) stem.

A 3-minute run through the forms of the imperative, jussive, and cohortative for the Pi'el (D) stem

A 4-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 4:1. Review.

An 11-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 4:2a. This part of the verse features a geminate verb, an interrogative he, and the infinitive construct of a third-he verb with a possessive on the end.

An 8-minute video overviewing the main varieties of Hebrew weak verb, where one of the three core consonants causes something funky to happen.

A 9-minute run through the Hebrew of the second part of Jonah 4:2. In this important verse of the Old Testament, we encounter a Pi'el perfect and a Niph'al participle.

A 6-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 4:3, where Jonah asks Yahweh to kill him. Features the irregular imperative of לָקַח.

A 7-minute video overviewing the strange things that happen with first yod weak verbs in biblical Hebrew. Sometimes the yod takes a hike. Sometimes it becomes a yod vowel. And sometimes, it reveals a mysterious past as a first-vav verb.

A 7-minute video going through the Hebrew of Jonah 4:4. Key features include the interrogative particle and, for the first time, the infinitive absolute. It is in the Hiph'il stem.

A 4-minute quick overview of the Hebrew infinitive absolute and infinitive construct in the basic Qal stem.

A 10-minute run through the Hebrew of Jonah 4:5, which features two first-yod verbs of the type where the yod takes a hike. Also features a third-he verb where the "he goes away."

A 5-minute overview of middle weak or "hollow" verbs. These are verbs whose middle consonant is a yod or a vav. Sometimes it stays. Sometimes it goes. Sometimes it actually doubles the last letter.

A 12-minute video running through the Hebrew of Jonah 4:6. This verse provides a timely review of infinitive constructs, third-he verbs, and prepares us nicely for a video to come on first nun weak verbs