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How to use a Biblical Hebrew Dictionary: Verbs

Rabbi Dr. David Moster is the director of the Institute of Biblical Culture and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of two Biblical Hebrew cards (links above) and “Etrog: How a Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol.” David received his PhD in תנ״ך (Hebrew Bible) from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and holds degrees in Bible, Education, and Rabbinics from Yeshiva University and New York University.

Accordance Bible Software and The Concise Dictionary of Classical Hebrew module available for purchase from the Accordance store are used throughout this video.

Disclaimer: The posting of this video represents neither an endorsement nor a negation of the lexicography and theories employed by the concise dictionary of classical Hebrew. The purpose of posting this video is to show how a dictionary or lexicon of your choice (provided it is available on the Accordance store) could be use in Accordance Bible Software.

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Paul on Hebrew

How, do you know if you or someone else really knows a foreign language or an L2? Easy, if you or another person can speak, listen, and (read) write the language in such a way that you can communicate back and forth with native speakers and very proficient experienced L2 or L3 users of the said language then you know that you (or someone else) really has acquired a high level of fluency in the said language.

To be sure while Classical or Biblical Hebrew is not identical with modern Hebrew never the less there is a very great overlap between them. So, much so that young native speakers of modern Hebrew can easily read the narrative sections of the Hebrew Bible and more proficient educated speakers of modern Hebrew can read all of the Hebrew Bible just the same as a modern speaker of English can read the works of William Shakespeare. Is the ‘middle English’ that Shakespeare uses the same as the current English of today? No, absolutely not both in terms of grammar and some vocabulary items, however, a literate native speaker of English can generally read and understand the works of Shakespeare.

The following video on Hebrew (in Hebrew but with English subtitles) is from Paul of the LangFocus youtube channel.