The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew

por Gary D. Pratico; Miles V. Van Pelt

Editorial:

Zondervan

, 2003

Overview

Acclaimed authors and teachers Miles Van Pelt and Gary D. Pratico have assembled here a guide for mastering basic Hebrew vocabulary. This guide helps seminary and Christian college students learn relevant Hebrew vocabulary conceptually. Grouping Hebrew vocabulary in three basic consonants this guide contains:

• All words occurring 10 times or more in the Hebrew Bible in descending order of frequency
• Primary roots and all words derived from roots occurring 10 times or more
• Unusual and difficult word list, such as proper names, adjectives, prepositions, pronouns, particles, and verbs

Key Features

• Assists in memorization in order to improve language acquisition
• Includes instructions on the best and most efficient way to use the text
• Arranges the lists of words based on their frequency

Contents

• Abbreviations and Symbols
• Hebrew Word Lists
  • Hebrew Words Arranged by Frequency
  • Hebrew Words Arranged by Common Root
  • Nouns and Nominals Listed Alphabetically
  • Verb Lists
  • Identical Words with Different Meanings (Alphabetical) Appendices
    • Basic Statistics of the Hebrew Verb
    • Verbal Roots in the Derived Stems
• Index of Hebrew Words

Top Highlights

“By memorizing only the first fifty words in the frequency vocabulary list, students will be equipped to recognize almost 55% of the total words that occur in the Hebrew Old Testament (419,687). Students who master the 641 words that occur fifty or more times will be able to recognize over 80% of all words. Finally, those who are brave enough to master all 1,903 words in the frequency vocabulary list will be equipped to recognize almost 90% of all words that occur in the Hebrew Old Testament.” (Page ix)

		“(Hi) to tell, announce, report, declare, inform; (Hoph) be told, be announced, be reported (371)” (Page 8)

		“to go in, enter, come to, come upon, arrive; (Hi) bring (in), come (in); (Hoph) be brought” (Page 2)

		“because; (adversative) but, except; (emphatic) indeed, truly” (Page 2)

“Occasionally, other information may follow, such as a reference to a related or cognate form (see entries #50, #51 and #52).” (Page x)

About the Authors

Gary D. Pratico (ThD, Harvard Divinity School) is professor of Old Testament and director of the Hebrew language program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has been teaching Hebrew for nearly 30 years. He is coauthor with Miles Van Pelt of Basics of Biblical Hebrew.

Miles Van Pelt (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Alan Belcher Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, where he also serves as the director of the Summer Institute for Biblical Languages and academic dean.