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Introduction v11 CHAP. I. Reading and Orthography 2 § 1. The Letters ib. 2. Division of the Consonants 3 3. Long Vowels. Quiescent Letters. Syllables 5 4. Begadchephath Letters. Dagesh. Short Vowels 8 5. Sh'va 10 6. The Semi-vowels 13 7. On Syllables 14 8. On distinguishing Kamets Khatuph from Kamets, and Long Kliirek from Short Khirek 16 9. Further Remarks on the Vowels. Diphthongs 17 10. On Verbal Roots, and on the Derivation of Nouns 20 11. On the Derivation of Nouns 24 12. The Accents 27 II. § 1. The definite Article 33 2. The Perfect and Imperfect of Kal 34 III. §1. Gender of Substantives. Adjectives 38 2. Formation of the Plural 41 3. Participles of Kal with their feminine and plural forms 46 4. The Dual Number 48 5. The Construct State (Status constructus) 50 IV. § 1. Suffixes denoting Possession 53 2. Prepositions denoting the Relations of Case 60 3. Other prepositional Prefixes. Vav 67 V. Modes of expressing the Comparative and Superlative 67 VI. § 1. Numerals. 1. The ten first Cardinal Numbers 69 2. The Cardinals continued. Ordinals 73 VII. The Pronouns 79 § 1. Personal Pronouns ib. 2. Demonstrative and Interrogative Pronouns. Demonstrative Pronouns 84 3. Relative Pronoun 88 VIII. The Regular Verb 92 § 1. Derivation of Verbs. The Conjugations ib. 2. Ou the ground-form (or Conjugation) Kal 97 3. Niphal 104 4. Pi£l and (its passive) Pual 109 5. Hiphil and (its passive) Hophal 117 6. Hithpael 124 IX. Verbs with Gutturals § 1. Verbs with Pe guttural ib. 2. Verbs Ayin Guttural 134 3. Verbs Lamed Guttural 139 X. Use of the Accents as Stops 142 XI. § 1. Verbs Double Ayin 147 2. Verbs Pe Nun 3. Verbs Pe Aleph. Feeble Verbs (Verba quiescentia) 159 4. Verbs Pe Yod. First Class, or Verbs originally Pe Vav 162 5. Verbs Pe Yod (continued). Second Class, or Verbs properly Pe Yod 168 6. Verbs Ayin Vav 171 7• Verbs Ayin Yod 178 8. Verbs Lamed Aleph 181 9. Verbs Lamed He 185 XII. Suffixes of the Verb 193 Differences of Idiom, &c. 199 Index I. Hebrew and English 203 II. English and Hebrew 227 Appendix A. Table of Declensions 1 B. Table of Irregular Nouns 8 C. Shorter Paradigms of the Regular Verb 9 D. General Paradigms of the Regular Verb 10 E. Paradigms of the Irregular Verbs 14

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Subjects: Hebrew language -- Grammar; textbook; Hebrew language -- Composition and exercises; Hebrew language