Bit at a time Bible Hebrew -- Genesis 1:9

Genesis 1:9

 

ט וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים יִקָּווּ הַמַּיִם מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם אֶל־מָקוֹם אֶחָד וְתֵרָאֶה הַיַּבָּשָׁה וַיְהִי־כֵן:

 

Transliteration: Va-yomer elohim yiqavu ha-maim mi-tachat ha-shamaim el-maqom echad v’teraeh ha-yabashah va-y’hi-khen.

Translation:    Gd said let the water gather under heaven to one place and let the dry land appear and it was so.

Letters in this lesson:

Vocabulary in this lesson:

יִקָּווּ	gather (3rd s.)
אֶל	to
מָקוֹם	place
תֵרָאֶה	appear (3rd f.s.)
יַּבָּשָׁה	dry land

 

You should be able to tell me why the qof of yiqavu has dagesh in it.  Go back to lesson 19 if you forget.

 

You should also be able to tell me the gender of maqom and yabashah.

 

All right, I guess it’s time to get down and dirty with verbs.  Let’s take the ones with heh as a last letter since it involves “be” and two verbs in this lesson.

 

Qof vav heh means collect or gather in some binyans and “hope” in others. 

Resh alef heh means mostly “see” although here it means “appear” and as you saw before it meant “manifest, show, display”. 

Heh yod heh is “be”.

 

You saw the past tense of “be” in the feminine singular.  Here is the past tense 3rd person.

 

Plural	Singular	Gender
הָיוּ	הָיָה	Masculine
הָיוּ	הָיְתָה	Feminine

 

The plural is the same in both masculine and feminine.

 

Now try to do the same for “collect” and “see”.

That’s pretty close but I threw you one curve.  “See” has alef in the middle, which is another letter that has its own way of being regular.  You should put a chataf  patach under it, which looks like this:

רָאֲתָה

 

Sorry about that.

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