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Ancient Hebrew Dictionary

Ancient Hebrew Dictionary

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Ancient Hebrew Dictionary, by Jeff A. Benner.

Published 2009 by Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc., P.O. Box 9949, College Station, TX 77845, US. 2007, Jeff A. Benner. All rights reserved. Any part of this book may be copied for educational purposes only, without prior permission.

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Ancient Hebrew Dictionary 1000 Verbs and Nouns of the Hebrew Bible

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By Jeff A. Benner

To Jack and Jamie Waid, our good friends

who are an inspiration to my wife and I and too many others.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.............................................................................1

ABOUT THE BOOK ................................................................................1 DICTIONARY FORMAT ...........................................................................2

DICTIONARY ~ VERBS ....................................................................5

ALEPH ...............................................................................................5 BEYT .................................................................................................8 GIMEL .............................................................................................11 DALET..............................................................................................13 HEY.................................................................................................14 ZAYIN ..............................................................................................15 HHET...............................................................................................17 TET .................................................................................................21 YUD ................................................................................................22 KAPH...............................................................................................27 LAMED.............................................................................................29 MEM...............................................................................................30 NUN................................................................................................33 SAMEHH ..........................................................................................39 AYIN................................................................................................40 PEY .................................................................................................42 TSADE..............................................................................................46 QUPH ..............................................................................................47 RESH ...............................................................................................50 SHIN................................................................................................53 TAV.................................................................................................59

DICTIONARY ~ NOUNS.................................................................61

ALEPH .............................................................................................61

BEYT ...............................................................................................74 GIMEL .............................................................................................80 DALET..............................................................................................83 HEY.................................................................................................85 ZAYIN ..............................................................................................86 HHET...............................................................................................87 TET .................................................................................................95 YUD ................................................................................................97 KAPH.............................................................................................100 LAMED...........................................................................................105 MEM.............................................................................................107 NUN..............................................................................................120 SAMEHH ........................................................................................124 AYIN..............................................................................................126 PEY ...............................................................................................133 TSADE............................................................................................136 QUPH ............................................................................................139 RESH .............................................................................................143 SHIN..............................................................................................147 TAV...............................................................................................157

APPENDIX A ~ THE ALPHABET.................................................... 162

THE VOWELS...................................................................................163

APPENDIX B ~ PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES ...................................... 164

THE PREFIXES ..................................................................................164 THE SUFFIXES (POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS)...............................................166 THE SUFFIXES (PLURALS) ...................................................................166 COMBINATIONS ...............................................................................167

APPENDIX C ~ PRONOUNS, PREPOSITIONS, ETC. ........................ 170

PRONOUNS.....................................................................................170 INDEFINITE PRONOUNS .....................................................................171

PREPOSITIONS .................................................................................171 ADVERBS........................................................................................172 CONJUNCTIONS ...............................................................................172 OTHER...........................................................................................173

APPENDIX D ~ NUMBERS........................................................... 174

CARDINAL NUMBERS ........................................................................174 ORDINAL NUMBERS .........................................................................176

APPENDIX E ~ VERB CONJUGATIONS.......................................... 178

TENSE AND SUBJECT .........................................................................178 THE REVERSING VAV ........................................................................179

INDEX ~ BY TRANSLATION ......................................................... 180

INDEX ~ BY STRONG'S................................................................ 190

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Introduction

About the Book

This book has been designed to be a quick reference guide for looking up the meaning of common Hebrew words found in the Hebrew Bible, as well as a resource for learning the Hebrew vocabulary.

Within this book is a list of the 1000 most frequently used Hebrew verbs (379) and nouns (621) from the Hebrew Bible. Each word entry includes:

1. The Hebrew word (in modern and ancient script).

2. A transliteration of the Hebrew word.

3. A one or two word translation of the Hebrew word.

4. A more detailed definition of the Hebrew word.

5. Cross references to other resources.

In the appendices are additional words and details about the Hebrew language including:

1. The Hebrew alphabet and vowels.

2. Hebrew prefixes and suffixes.

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3. Pronouns, prepositions, etc.

4. Hebrew numbers.

5. Hebrew verb conjugations.

Dictionary Format

Below is an example entry, followed by an explanation of its contents.

mfls / sha-lom Translation:+Completeness / .944Definition:+Something that has been finished or made whole. A state of being complete. AHLB:+2845 (c) Strong's:+7965

Modern Hebrew Word Following the entry number is the Hebrew word written in the Modern Hebrew script ().

Ancient Hebrew Word Each word is also written in the ancient pictographic script (mfls). In some cases, this spelling may be different than the modern script. As an example, the word #390) ) includes the hholam vowel pointing (the dot above the aleph representing the "o" sound), but in most ancient documents this word is written as (where the letter vav represents the o sound) or lefa in the ancient script. In addition, the spelling of words evolve over time. For instance, the word

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(#452, bor, a cistern) comes from the root (kor) meaning "to dig a hole." Therefore, the ancient spelling of this word would have been rfk (kor).

Transliteration A transliteration from Hebrew into Roman letters (sha-lom) is given to assist with the pronunciation of Hebrew nouns. Verb transliterations will be represented by the cons