How Does the Perfect Function?

How Does the Perfect Function?

Classical Hebrew Level Two

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What You'll Know By the End of this Course

  • What You Will Know and What You'll be Able to Do
  • Cumulative Vocabulary List For Download

Reviewing the Basics

  • Tell Me About Yourself
  • Why is This Unit Different from All Other Units?
  • Reviewing the Dagesh
  • Reviewing the Vowels
  • Vocabulary Basics
  • Tell Your Classmates About Yourself

UNIT 1: Introducing the Past Tense (Not Really - There is No Real Tense in the Bible!)

  • You Say the Future and I Say Imperfect...
  • What Does the Perfect Look Like?
  • How Does the Perfect Function?
  • Vocabulary List
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Answer Key
  • Looking at a Text
  • Paradigm Chart and Exercises Walk-Through

UNIT 2: To Be or Not to Be: Introducing "to be", III-Hey verbs, and demonstrative pronouns

  • Our First Variation on the Verb- III-Hey
  • To Be or Not To Be
  • This and These: Demonstrative Pronouns
  • Vocabulary List
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk-Through
  • Text Study
  • Paradigm Charts

UNIT 3: "King of the Universe," also known as semichut!

  • Noticing Semichut in the Texts
  • Introduction to Semichut or Construct Forms
  • Constructs Continued
  • Construct Forms Paradigm Chart
  • Object Pronouns
  • Vocabulary List
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk-Through
  • Text Study

UNIT 4: Hollow Verbs (yes, that's really a thing!) and "Mine, mine mine!"

  • What are Hollow Verbs? Are They Shallow? Unfulfilled?
  • Presenting the Hollow Verbs Paradigm
  • Possessives: What Belongs to Whom?
  • Vocabulary List
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk-Through
  • Text Study: Watching for Possessive Suffixes

UNIT 5: Introducing the Future Tense (Again, Its Not Really Future!)

  • Let's Remember Aspect
  • What Does the Imperfect Look Like?
  • How Does the Imperfect Function?
  • Vocabulary List
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk Through
  • A Peek at the Next Lesson
  • Text Study: A Whole New World!

Unit 6: First Ventures into the Elusive Vav and more Imperfects

  • Step One of the Vav Consecutive
  • Imperfect with III-Aleph and III-Hey
  • Vocabulary
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk-Through
  • Text Study: Prayerbook Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew

And on the Seventh, We Rest!!

  • Time to Reflect
  • Vocabulary Review 40 Words
  • Verb Form Review: Perfect and Imperfect

UNIT 8: Verbs That Begin with the Shy Nun in Imperfect

  • Introducing I-Nun Verbs (Don't Look at a Nun Too Hard - It May Disappear....)
  • Presenting the Paradigm for Shy Nun
  • Vocabulary
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk Through
  • Text Study: Havdalah
  • Text Study Walk Through

UNIT 9: Presenting the Basic Paradigm for the Disappearing Yod Imperfect

  • Introducing I-Yod Verbs (Where, O Where Did My Yod Go?)
  • Presenting the Disappearing Yod Imperfect Paradigm
  • Vocabulary
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk Through
  • Text Study: Sim Shalom and Genesis Excerpts
  • Text Study Sim Shalom Walk Through

UNIT 10: The Infinitive Construct - Unique to Biblical Hebrew!

  • Introducing the Basics of the Infinitive Construct
  • Vocabulary
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk Through
  • Text Study: Sh'ma and Psalm 27
  • Text Study Walk Through

UNIT 11: The Infinitive Absolute: Absolutely Easier than the Construct!

  • Introducing the Infinitive Absolute
  • Vocabulary
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk Through
  • Text Study: Ruth and Genesis 22
  • Text Study Walk Through

UNIT 12: Final Review and Next Steps

  • Summative Exercises
  • Exercises Walk Through
  • How To Use a Lexicon to Look Up Words