than the noble languages of Greece and Rome; and that, except in a few terms, chiefly of Natural History, in which those languages are equally obscure, there can be but one clear, genuine, grammatical, and certain sense given to the original.

Should the present work meet with sufficient encouragement, it is intended to publish the whole of the Hebrew Scriptures in the same manner. The next part will consist of "The Book of Psalms," called in Hebrew, çepher těhi'līm, or, "THE BOOK OF PRAISES."

ORTHOGRAPHIC AND ORTHOEPIC

SCALE.

POWER.

Sa quiescent, or a simple breathing, the spiritus lenis of the Greeks.

a in fall, by some pronounced as ō.

*This letter () is merely employed to shew the position of the vowel-points.

The dot in this and some other letters is termed dagesh, and renders them harder in pronunciation: see v.

This vowel point, which is compounded of the preceding and following, is only used for the subsequent one under the gutturals.

Only as v at the end of a syllable; in other cases w or quiescent: see ō, u, and w. This and the four following lengthened forms of the characters are termed finals, being only used at the end of words.

It must be remembered, that none of the Italic letters are to be pronounced.

This vowel, which is the same in form as a, is distinguished from it by being immediately followed by a consonant in the same syllable. tw only at the beginning of a syllable, see f.

Called dagesh forte, or double dagesh.