Thursday, October 3, 2019

21st Century Bible Hebrew -- frequent verbs


Here is a list of the 30 most frequent verb roots in Genesis, sorted from least to most common.  Learn these verbs in all aspects in qal, and learn bo in hifil, BUT learn diber in piel (although the qal does come up from time to time) and you won’t have to use the dictionary nearly so much.  If you have bought Bolozky’s 501 Hebrew Verbs, you can use that; the Biblical Hebrew versions are much like modern Hebrew, which is what the book focuses on, aside from pesky things like modal morphology and narrative past and necessity. 


אהב
Love
חלם
Dream
אסף
Add
עלה
Go up
שים
Place, put, set
קום
Get up
דבר
Speak
ירד
Go down
ידע
Know
מצא
Find
שמע
Hear
מות
Die
ישב
Sit, live
עשה
Do, make
שוב
Return
ילד
Give birth
יצא
Go out
ברך
Bless
אכל
Eat
יגד
Tell
קרא
Call, name, read
ראה
See, look
הלך
Walk, go
לקח
Take, marry, buy
חיה
Live
נתן
Give, put, set in place
בוא
Come, go
היה
Be
אמר
Say



5 comments:

  1. Hi Patricia. Don't call yourself old b*tch. Lashon hara against yourself still is forbidden! Do you really think Ouaknin's Burnt Book is without merit? He's a prof at Bar Ilan, hardly a modernist enclave!

    I am a former Breslover. Please write to me mevashir@aol.com

    Gmar Hatima Tova

    ouaknin@mail.biu.ac.il
    https://www.amazon.com/Burnt-Book-Marc-Alain-Ouaknin/dp/0691059209

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  2. Are you familiar with the work of Isaac Mozeson about the supposed Hebraic etymology of thousands of English words?

    His seminal work is called The Word. Do you find it credible?

    The word https://g.co/kgs/bZCCrv

    Examples of his hypothesis are:

    Air from Avir
    Wine from Yayin
    Skin (verb) from Sakin
    Death from Da'ath since the tree of knowledge brought death into the world.

    I recently noticed the amazing thing that the son of Noah Yefet who is considered the father of the Europeans and whose name connotes beauty is related to the Greek word for Greece Hellas meaning beautiful! And the Greeks are considered the culture of beauty

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  3. To all these all I can say is I have to do very directed reading to make progress on my projects which necessarily include housework and yardwork. None of these are on my list; they don't go with anything I'm doing.

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  4. Ok. I thought you'd find of interest. Are you Charedia? Mesoratia?

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