Resources for Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary

Vocabulary Resources

HebrewCards by J. Ted Blakley

Basics of Biblical Hebrew

Vocabulary Cards 2005 by Philip Poots

Hebrew Vocabulary Online

The Fellowship of the Hadowites

 

Hebrew Vocabulary Index (for Sp06 St Andrews)

Weekly Vocabulary Quiz Schedule

Weekly Vocabulary Lists

Irregular Noun of the Week

 

 

HebrewCards (in progress)                                                                                        Back to the Hebrew Vocabulary Index

Here is an incomplete set of Hebrew flashcards based off of the lists in Landes (currently 9–15). As you can see, these HebrewCards come in a variety of formats and so encourages and supports various learning modalities (auditory, visual, and tactile-kinesthetic). If you discover any errors, email me and I will update the files.

• Electronic. These files can be viewed with Microsoft PowerPoint, and thus provides vocabulary input using your computer.  If you don’t have access to PowerPoint, a free viewer is available for free download here.

• Printable. These files can be viewed in and printed from Adobe Acrobat format (pdf). They are identical to the electronic HebrewCards.

• Audio. The audio files come in two versions, a pronunciation and a vocabulary version. In the pronunciation version, the Hebrew words are read and repeated three times each. In the vocabulary version, the Hebrew word is followed by an English gloss. Each word and gloss is repeated twice, which lends itself to better vocabulary input.

• Quiz. The quizzes were designed for my office mates when we were helping each other with our acquisition of Hebrew vocabulary.

 

Vocabulary Lists in Landes

Word

Count

HebrewCards

Electronic

(PowerPoint)

HebrewCards

Printable

(PDF)

Auditory Pronunciation

and  Vocabulary Input

(MP3)

Practice

Quiz

9

23

PPT

PDF

 

PDF

10

23

PPT

PDF

Pronunciation • Vocabulary

PDF

Week 5

 

 

 

 

 

11

22

PPT

PDF

Pronunciation • Vocabulary

PDF

12

24

PPT

PDF

Pronunciation • Vocabulary

PDF

Week 6

 

 

 

 

 

13

25

PPT*

PDF

Vocabulary

PDF

14

28

PPT

PDF

 

PDF

15

20

PPT*

PDF*

 

 

Week 7

 

PPT

PDF

Vocabulary

 

54

 

PPT*

PDF*

Vocabulary

 

55

 

PPT

PDF

Vocabulary

 

56

 

PPT

PDF

Vocabulary

 

57

 

PPT

PDF

Vocabulary

 

Week 8

 

PPT

PDF

Vocabulary

 

75

 

PPT

PDF

Vocabulary

 

76

 

PPT

PDF

Vocabulary

 

Week 9

 

PPT

PDF

 

 

77

 

PPT

PDF

 

 

78

 

PPT

PDF

 

 

 

*Staring with List 15, I began experimenting with creating ScriptureCards, which enhances one’s vocabulary acquisition by learning words within meaningful contexts. Each ScriptureCard consists of a scripture verse in Hebrew with an accompanying English translation; there is at least one ScriptureCard for every vocabulary word, sometimes more than one, especially if a verb occurs frequently in more than one stem.

 

Basics of Biblical Hebrew — Vocabulary (in progress)                                      Back to the Hebrew Vocabulary Index

The following audio files offer input for pronunciation and vocabulary acquisition if you are using Basics of Biblical Hebrew. The pronunciation files pronounce a word followed with enough space for you to repeat the word. Each word is repeated three times. The vocabulary files pronounce the word followed by the English gloss provided by BBH. Again, each word with its glosses is presented three times.

 

Chapter

Word

Count

Pronunciation

Vocabulary

3

20

Pronunciation

Vocabulary

4

20

Pronunciation

Vocabulary

5

20

Pronunciation

Vocabulary

6

23

 

Vocabulary

7

 

 

Vocabulary

8

 

 

Vocabulary

9

 

 

Vocabulary

10

 

 

 

 

The Irregular Noun of the Week                                                                                Back to the Hebrew Vocabulary Index

Each week you will be responsible for memorizing an irregular noun in all of its basic forms. You will be given the English and be asked to reproduce the appropriate Hebrew form. The shaded forms are those that are formed irregularly. A pdf version of this chart is available here.

 

Plural

Construct

Plural

Absolute

Singular

Construct

Singular

Absolute

 

 

אֲבוֹת

אָבוֹת

אֲבִי

אָב

father

Though masculine, the plurals take feminine-type sufformatives. I think this is where the English word Abbot comes from.

אֲחֵי

אַחִים

אֲחִי

אָח

brother

The msc takes the same voweling as the msc of father.

אַנְשֵׁי

אֲנָשִׁים

אִישׁ

אִישׁ

man

 

נְשֵׁי

נָשִׁים

אֵ֫שֶׁת

אִשָּׁה

woman, f

 

בְּנֵי

בָּנִים

בֶּן־