Monthly Archives: March 2011

Hebrew Verbs With Gutturals

Posted on March 22, 2011 by ivrit

Verbs which have a guttural for one of the three radicals differ in their inflexion from the ordinary strong verb. These differences do not affect the consonantal part of the stem, and it is, therefore, more correct to regard the … Continue reading →

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Mater Lectionis

Posted on March 20, 2011 by ivrit

The usage of certain consonants to indicate a vowel in the spelling of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac languages is called matres lectionis (Latin “mothers of reading”, singular form: mater lectionis, Hebrew: אֵם קְרִיאָה mother of reading). The letters that do … Continue reading →

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Remarks on Pronunciation

Posted on March 14, 2011 by ivrit

א is the “soft breathing” like the h in English hour.  ה is the “rough breathing” like the h in English heat. ח is pronounced like ch in the German Buch. ח represents two Arabic letters خ chà (pronounced as … Continue reading →

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Hebrew Alphabet

Posted on March 4, 2011 by ivrit

The Hebrew character in used at the present day, and in which the oldest existing manuscripts of the Bible are found written, is not only the same that was employed at the time of Jerome, viz. in the fourth century … Continue reading →

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