ivrit express 2: equating things
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The Ivrit Express series presents compact lessons in Biblical (not Modern) Hebrew grammar. It aims to reinforce (not replace) your classroom experiences.
I recommend that you go through the foregoing picture slides at least three times before advancing to the grammatical discussion.
In the picture examples, you learned that there are basically three ways to equate a subject and predicate in Biblical Hebrew.
First, you can just set the subject and predicate side-by-side, so האיש גבור means “the man is a mighty warrior.”
Second, you can connect the two nouns with the corresponding subject pronoun. Thus you can say for “the man is a האיש הוא גבורmighty warrior” or האשה היא רעה for “the woman is a shepherd.”
But if you want to make the time referent clearer, you can use the being verb to specify, as in הילד יהיה גבור or הרעה היתה ילדה.
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