Michael Carasik
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You've seen object suffixes in previous lectures. Now, focus on them directly. You'll learn some obvious (and not-so-obvious) combinations of verbs and object suffixes, and ponder some questions about phrases and sentences in the Bible that appear more than once, but with slight variations.
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From mi ("Who?") and lama lo ("Why not?") to eikh ("How?") and matai ("When?"), discover how to recognize the words that tell you when a question is coming up in Biblical Hebrew. Why is this so important? Because there's no such thing as a question mark in Biblical Hebrew.
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In this episode, explore geminates: roots where radicals two and three are the same. Along the way, you'll learn how to spot these common two-letter combinations, consider a fascinating example from Ezekiel's vision of the messianic future Temple, and begin reading Numbers 22 from start to finish.
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In Biblical Hebrew, the binyan acts as a sort of stem or conjugation for verbs. Get a re-introduction to verbs with their binyan identification, learn how the binyanim got their names, and focus on a single root in different binyanim to get a feel for what the binyanim do to a verb's meaning.
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By allowing you to attach another noun to your first noun, the construct form acts as a sort of trailer hitch in Biblical Hebrew. Once attached, the first noun in construct "belongs" to the second. Here, learn construct forms by revisiting the first and fourth day of creation.
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The Tiberian system of marking vowels in Hebrew has been used exclusively for more than 1,000 years. In this episode, discover the signs that mark short and long vowels, and learn how vowels can change their spelling (and, slightly, their sound) without changing their meaning.
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Take a closer look at another major binyan: the Piel. The goal of this episode is to give you the skills to distinguish this binyan when you need to, so you can learn the verbs as they come along. Then, examine two more binyanim: the passives Pu'al and Hophal.
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Lamed-hey roots are those roots where, in the dictionary, the third radical of a verb (the lamed) is a hey. Here, learn how to work with some of the most common lamed-hey roots, including banah ("build"), hayah ("live"), anah ("answer"), panah ("turn"), and kalah ("be over").
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Every Hebrew verb, and almost every noun and adjective, is based on a root, a group of three (or sometimes two) consonants. Here, Professor Carasik teaches you how to begin recognizing the roots of verbs in Biblical Hebrew, then he discusses how God is referred to in the Hebrew Bible.
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Continue your study of construct forms with prepositions in Biblical Hebrew that are combinations of simple prepositions you've already learned (example: lifnei, or "before"). Then, look at irregular nouns with unusual construct forms whose frequent occurrence makes them critical to understanding Biblical Hebrew.
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Explore how Biblical Hebrew expresses intention (as in phrases like yehi or, or "Let there be light."). You'll encounter jussives, which are only found in lamed-hey, hollow, and Hiphil verbs; and cohortatives, which invite collective action (as in the famous song, "Hava Nagila").
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The infinitive verb form is used to describe the action of a verb (as in "There's a time to rend ... and a time to mend."). Professor Carasik walks you through the different infinitive forms, then guides you through Ecclesiastes 3: what he calls the "mother lode" of the Hebrew infinitive.
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Focus on a new binyan: Hiphil, which can be thought of as the causative binyan. (One example: l'haqtir, or "to burn incense.") Then, go back to Genesis, collect a list of Hiphil infinitives, and see what the different root categories do when you put them into this Hiphil shape.
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Very few verbs in Hebrew are irregular. Those that are, as you'll learn here, are not very difficult, but they do work a little differently than what you're used to seeing. In this episode, learn how to master irregular Hebrew verbs by focusing on them individually.
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Get an introduction to the five different Hebrew verb forms: finite, infinitive, adjective, participle, and imperative. Plus, learn three ways of identifying something as definite (rather than indefinite): by using the definite article (ha), by labeling it with a personal pronoun, and by naming it.
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Turn now to the imperative form in Hebrew and the simplest way to think of it (in the Qal): by taking off the tav prefix from second-person imperfect verbs. You'll learn imperatives from a variety of weak and strong verbs, and use your skills to work through several biblical verses.
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Explore three Hebrew letters that attach to the beginning of other words to create a new word. Then, armed with this new knowledge, read your first complete paragraph in Biblical Hebrew from start to finish: the story of the first day of creation in Genesis 1:1-5.
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Focus on two of the five forms of Biblical Hebrew verbs: the perfect and the imperfect, both of which have person, gender, and number. The perfect, as you'll learn, is always marked by endings. The imperfect, however, is marked by prefix letters as well: aleph, nun, tav, and yud.