An elementary Hebrew grammar

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J.G. & F. Rivington, 1834 - 118 pages
 

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Page 26 - The Pluperfect Tense represents a thing, not only as past, but also as prior to some other point of time specified in the sentence: as, " I had finished my letter before he arrived.
Page 70 - The English interjections, as well as those of other languages, are comprised within a small compass. They are of different sorts, according to the different passions which they serve to express. Those which intimate earnestness or grief, are, O .' oh ! ah ! alas ! Such as are expressive of contempt, are, pish!
Page 4 - Besides the above vowels, there is another, called Sheva (:), which has been introduced to facilitate the utterance of words where two or more consonants would otherwise come together. When it is sounded, it has the power of a very short e ; as in the word below.
Page 3 - ... necessary in printing Hebrew. Various marks have, however, been invented for the purpose of denoting the vowel sounds, and thus to facilitate the reading of the language. They are called masoretic points, and a knowledge of them is indispensable to every compositor employed on Hebrew works with points. They are ten in number ; five perfect, which, with their preceding consonant, form a syllable ; and five imperfect, which have a consonant preceding, and following them. Their names, figure, and...
Page 68 - Chapter 8. On prepositions . Prepositions are designed to connect words with one another, and to show the relation between them. The following is a list of the prepositions. Ni, of. Kivei, to. I, in, with. 1, of. Mewei, for Mai, from. Ki, to. Vei, to Kini, from. 2 . Illustrations . Ni governs the genitive, and is used before common nouns and names of places; as, — a duru ni vale, the post of the house...
Page 43 - Indeed it may be remarked as a general rule, that the characteristic of the tense excludes the characteristic of the conjugation.
Page 60 - WITH SUFFIX PRONOUNS. § 303. Pronouns, following verbs and governed by them, are attached to them and united in the same word. This is effected by taking the fragments or parts of the pronoun, with an appropriate vowel of union (where one is needed), and adjusting the form of the verb, when necessary, so as to receive it.
Page 13 - Most nouns in Hebrew are derived from verbs, and in general have for their ground forms the infinitive mood or participles.

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