BIH-250
Introductory Biblical Hebrew 

Course description:

• Inttroductory Biblical Hebrew (BIH-250) assesses students’ ability to comprehend and apply Biblical Hebrew on a basic and introductory level. The course prepares students to define and comprehend common nouns and verbs in perfect, imperfect, and imperative, and understand the usage of Biblical Hebrew noun-verb agreement, waw-conversive (ו"ו ההיפוך), the construct chain, definitive nouns, adjectives, adjective–noun agreement, prepositions, prepositions with pronominal suffixes, and apply verbs using the seven heads under which the Hebrew verb is conjugated: Qal, Niph’al, Pi’el, Pu’al, Hitpa’el, Hif’il, and Hof’al. 

.  Course structure:

• 3 credits, lower level

• Course Syllabus

• Study Guide (9 pages)

Exam:

• about 35 questions, all open ended

• 2 hours to complete

Sample questions:

1) Translate the following Hebrew sentence into English:      פתחו הדלת וקרבו אלי, ואל תצאו שם.

Translate Hebrew nouns into English.  Where appropriate, indicate person and gender. 

                     2)         הדבר                              

                     3)         הלילה ההוא         

4)      המלך צוה למלכה שלו: קחי הסוס הגדול הזה לאכל היום למען שלא יהיה רעב.

Answers:

1.  Open the door and come close to me, and do not leave to there. 

2.  The thing (m)

3.  That night

4. The king commanded his queen: Take this big horse today to eat, so that it will not be hungry.

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