Biblical Hebrew: Learning a Sacred Language

Learn how to read the Hebrew Bible in its original ancient language.

• By This Professor
• 01: Studying Biblical Hebrew
• 02: Learning the Aleph Bet
• 03: The Tiberian Vowel System
• 04: Roots of Semitic Verbs
• 05: Hebrew Verb Forms and the Definite Article
• 06: Hebrew’s Attached Prepositions
• 07: Adjective Forms and Agreement in Hebrew
• 08: Irregular Hebrew Nouns and Adjectives
• 09: Hebrew Pronouns and Pronominal Suffixes
• 10: How Hebrew Letters Behave
• 11: Perfect and Imperfect Hebrew Verbs
• 12: Segholate Nouns and Pausal Forms
• 13: The Construct Form: Hebrew’s Trailer Hitch
• 14: Forming Hebrew Construct Chains
• 15: Hebrew Verb Classifications: Binyanim
• 16: Question Words in Hebrew
• 17: Hebrew Participles
• 18: Counting in Hebrew
• 19: Hebrew Roots with Guttural Letters
• 20: Hebrew’s Lamed-Hey Roots
• 21: Hebrew's Roots Beginning with Yud
• 22: Irregular Hebrew Verbs
• 23: Hebrew’s Hollow Verbs
• 24: The Infinitive in Hebrew
• 25: Jussives, Cohortatives, and “Hava Nagila”
• 26: The Imperative Form in Hebrew
• 27: Verbs of the Hiphil Binyan
• 28: Piel Verbs and Passive Binyanim
• 29: Reflexive Binyanim: Niphal and Hitpa'el
• 30: Reading the Bible in Hebrew: Joshua 1
• 31: Geminate Verbs and Reading Numbers 22
• 32: Hebrew’s Object Suffixes
• 33: Hebrew Oaths and Other Idioms
• 34: Understanding Hebrew Punctuation Marks
• 35: Choosing a Hebrew Bible
• 36: Helpful Hebrew Reference Books