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Could somebody please point me in the direction of a glossary of Hebrew grammatical terms?

Stephen Hughes wrote:Could somebody please point me in the direction of a glossary of Hebrew grammatical terms?

Here is one on Amazon specifically for Hebrew (note that it is not a lexicon but a dictionary of grammatical terms).
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Dictionary ... 0830814582

Be sure to use the "look inside" feature on Amazon to see if this is the type of book you're needing.

markofcain wrote:Here is ... on Amazon ... a dictionary of grammatical terms

I've had a good look through the "look inside" feature. It is a dictionary of both general language, grammar and linguistic things and about the specifically Hebrew grammatical terms too. Do you have a copy yourself? Do you recommend it to your students?

Stephen Hughes wrote:Do you have a copy yourself? Do you recommend it to your students?

No I don't have a copy and therefore can not recommend it. I suggested it to you as no one had responded to your request and I thought that this might help. BTW, I don't have any Hebrew students but have often thought that it would be fun!

I would like to have a set of basic grammar terms in Hebrew to use in my own studies, preferably from a free or public domain source. Those of you who teach Hebrew and use communicative approaches, do you use any of these? If so, do you use the Modern Hebrew terms, or draw from the medieval Hebrew grammarians?


Dewayne Dulaney

Stephen Hughes wrote:

markofcain wrote:Here is ... on Amazon ... a dictionary of grammatical terms

I've had a good look through the "look inside" feature. It is a dictionary of both general language, grammar and linguistic things and about the specifically Hebrew grammatical terms too. Do you have a copy yourself? Do you recommend it to your students?

I own a copy, and used it myself quite a bit when expanding beyond my initial studies in Weingreen, and finding that other grammarians used very different terminology. I still find myself consulting it from time to time. I believe the O.P. would find it helpful for the indicated purpose.

But are the terms there actually in Hebrew, or just English (and the usual Latin ones, like jussive and matres lectionis)?
Ideally, I'd like some that go back as far in history as possible, say, to the Mishnaic period if they existed that far back.

Dewayne Dulaney

talmid56 wrote:But are the terms there actually in Hebrew, or just English (and the usual Latin ones, like jussive and matres lectionis)?
Ideally, I'd like some that go back as far in history as possible, say, to the Mishnaic period if they existed that far back.

Dewayne Dulaney

Dewayne,

Have you seen a copy of Weingreen's A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew? Circa 1939. While he still uses words like "jussive" and "matres lectionis," many of his grammatical terms are in Hebrew.

I just looked at the price on Amazon.com, ouch! I bought mine for $1.50 at Goodwill.

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Grammar ... 0198154224

I've hear of Weingreen but haven't seen it. Thanks for the tip. If I were to buy one, it would have to be cheap, too.

Dewayne Dulaney

markofcain wrote:

talmid56 wrote:But are the terms there actually in Hebrew, or just English (and the usual Latin ones, like jussive and matres lectionis)?
Ideally, I'd like some that go back as far in history as possible, say, to the Mishnaic period if they existed that far back.

Dewayne Dulaney

Dewayne,

Have you seen a copy of Weingreen's A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew? Circa 1939. While he still uses words like "jussive" and "matres lectionis," many of his grammatical terms are in Hebrew.

I just looked at the price on Amazon.com, ouch! I bought mine for $1.50 at Goodwill.

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Grammar ... 0198154224

That is an interesting suggestion. Weingreen was my text when I learned Hebrew, and I have taught from Weingreen, but I don't recall his using particularly Hebrew terminology. He does refer to Pe Waw and Lamed Gutteral, as opposed to the I-Waw and III-Gutteral of more recent grammars, but I believe that's about the extent of it.

I have seen some others that make it a point to use almost exclusively Hebrew terminology--Cook and Holmstedt's grammar comes to mind, although I don't know that I would necessarily recommend it for any other reason.