Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, A [Paperback]

Larry A. Mitchel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 4, 1984

A Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic provides the student with a vocabulary list by word frequency for words appearing ten times or more in the Hebrew text. Unlike other vocabulary lists, this work combines all word forms in a single list, simplifying the student's task of learning all words of a given frequency. Words are given in groups of thirty or fewer in order to provide the students with short, manageable learning blocks. The vocabulary list also gives the basic meaning of each word, a phonetic pronunciation guide, key information about the word's part of speech, and the number of times each word appears in the Hebrew text. A separate section of the vocabulary list contains all Aramaic words appearing in the Old Testament. A Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic is a tool that will be welcomed and used by all students of Hebrew.

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Text: English, Hebrew

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A Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic provides the student with a vocabulary list by word frequency for words appearing ten times or more in the Hebrew text. Unlike other vocabulary lists, this work combines all word forms in a single list, simplifying the student's task of learning all words of a given frequency. Words are given in groups of thirty or fewer in order to provide the students with short, manageable learning blocks. The vocabulary list also gives the basic meaning of each word, a phonetic pronunciation guide, key information about the word's part of speech, and the number of times each word appears in the Hebrew text. A separate section of the vocabulary list contains all Aramaic words appearing in the Old Testament. A Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic is a tool that will be welcomed and used by all students of Hebrew.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan (May 4, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310454611
• ISBN-13: 978-0310454618
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #4 in Books > Education & Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > Aramaic
  • #65 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Bible & Other Sacred Texts > Jewish Texts > Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A superb vocab list, August 28, 2001

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Blah (New York, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, A (Paperback)

This book is a great list for those students who wish to build their vocabulary in order to gain a greater understanding to the bible. This book is not a dictionary and don't try to use it as such. The words are broken into sections according to the frequency in which they occur in the bible. The more frequent a word occurs the closer to the front they will appear. The words are not in alphabetic order. However, if you wish to improve your vocabulary quickly by learning the most useful words than this book is for you.

50 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well Organized, January 15, 2001

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Christopher C. Alsruhe (Baltimore, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, A (Paperback)

The interesting thing about learning Biblical Hebrew is that there is a definite limit to how much vocabulary you need to learn (about 8700 words, and many are cognates of each other). This booklet arranges all words together by frequency, without having to switch between a verb and a noun section. This book gives the frequencies of each word so that you can basically calculate how much of the Hebrew Bible you will be able to read as you learn. Its one downfall is that it doesn't give accurate frequencies on words over 5000 occurrences--it just says 5000. Well, that's very inadequate considering that Vav/"V" (and) occurs 50,303 times, not only 5,000. For the definite article Heh (H), it states 5000, but the actual number is 30,393. It would not have been difficult to find these numbers and publish them in the book.

There are 474,365 morphemic occurrences in the Hebrew OT. By only learning to recognize the initial Vav, one has reduced the occurrences to learn to 424,062. By learning one letter/word out of 8700, one can recognize over 10% of the morphemic occurrences in the OT (this book indicates that one has learn 1.6%). Learn the first 25 words that are most frequent, and one has learned to recognize almost 43% (over 200,000) of all morphemic occurrences (assuming one learns a little about how these words change appearance in actual use). This text does not give completely accurate frequencies on the first 25 words. This shouldn't stop one from buying it. Just know that having learned the first 25, you're almost 43% there; and if you know all the attached and unattached pronouns, add over another 10% to your recognition bank.

I find it very easy to carry around, and I've added my notes to it. This has been my primary quick-learning guide.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what is needed, June 15, 2004

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Sue Nageotte (Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, A (Paperback)

As others have said, this is a terrific vocabulary builder, containing both Hebrew and Aramaic words. The back contains an index which I have found wonderfully helpful as an aid to finding the root in drop-letter or hollow verbs. Sometimes BDB gives far too much information. The one minor flaw is that feminine nouns aren't identified as such