Biblical Hebrew לְשׁוֹן הַקֹּדֶשׁ
Reading Torah, Psalms and the Siddur in the original — gutturals, the construct state, the vav, and guided passages read line by line.
Reading & Alphabet
The Alphabet, Final Forms & the Gutturals
The 22 consonants from a reader’s view, the 5 final forms, and why guttural letters break the rules.
beginner · 5 min read
The Vowel Signs (Nikkud) — Full Chart
Qamats, patah, segol, tsere, hireq, holem, qibbuts, shureq, shewa and the hatef vowels — with examples.
beginner · 4 min read
Dagesh, Shewa & Syllables
Dagesh lene vs forte, the begadkefat letters, vocal vs silent shewa, and splitting words into syllables.
beginner · 4 min read
Nominals
The Definite Article הַ
He + dagesh forte, and the vowel changes before gutturals and resh — with a memory trick.
beginner · 3 min read
Inseparable Prepositions & the Vav Conjunction
בְּ, לְ, כְּ and מִן — how they attach, how their vowels change, and the many faces of וְ “and”.
beginner · 4 min read
The Construct State (Smikhut)
How Hebrew says “the house of the king” without “of” — the most frequent construction in the Bible.
beginner · 4 min read
Pronouns & Pronominal Suffixes
Independent pronouns table, then the suffixes that turn “house” into “my house / your house”.
beginner · 4 min read
Nominal Sentences, yesh / ein & the Object Marker אֵת
Verbless clauses (“the king is in the house”), existence words, and the little word אֵת before definite objects.
beginner · 3 min read
Verbs
Qatal (the Perfect) — Full Paradigm
שָׁמַר “he kept” in all persons: the suffix conjugation, its endings, and what it means.
beginner · 3 min read
Yiqtol (the Imperfect) — Full Paradigm
יִשְׁמֹר “he will keep” in all persons: prefixes AND suffixes, and the two meaning ranges.
beginner · 3 min read
Wayyiqtol — the Storyline Tense
The vav-consecutive that drives biblical narrative: form, the dagesh in the prefix, and a full paradigm.
beginner · 3 min read
The Seven Stems (Binyanim) — Overview
Qal, Nifal, Piel, Pual, Hifil, Hofal, Hithpael: the meaning patterns with one example each.
beginner · 4 min read
Reading
Guided Reading: Genesis 1:1–3
Word-by-word analysis of the Bible’s opening verses using everything from this vault.
beginner · 4 min read
How to Read a Hebrew Gravestone (Matzevah)
The layout top to bottom, פ"נ and ת.נ.צ.ב.ה., the name formula, kohen and levi, the Hebrew date and how to convert it, with a worked example.
beginner · 9 min read
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