Hebrew Charts

This file includes the simplified and full vowel charts referred to in the lecture modules.

This chart lists some biblical Hebrew names with a rough pronunciation guide, English form, meaning, and a sample biblical reference or two. I use this chart when I teach biblical Hebrew by immersion. Students get to pick a Hebrew name to use throughout the semester. Here is an editable OpenOffice version.

This is an attempt to chart the changes that occur to the article when the following letter resists gemination (i.e. will not take a dagesh forte).

This chart outlines some of the various ways that the sequence tenses are referred to.
Both a color and a black & white version are available.

This is a flow chart to help parse strong verbs. It is based on, though not identical to, Allen Ross's Mechanical Parsing Method found in Review A of his Introducing Biblical Hebrew (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2001) p. 222-225.

Karyn Traphagen has a couple of very nice Weak Verb Charts on her Hebrew Resources page. Be sure also to have a look at her 16 page Biblical Hebrew Review Guide. This review of grammar and morphology is packed with helpful charts and rules. I particularly enjoy her humourous (and helpful) comic strip illustrations of voice (active, passive, reflective, etc.). Very nice!

Have a look also at the Free Church Seminary's online Hebrew course. In addition to providing a complete Hebrew course for free with full video lectures, they also have a number of useful charts. At the bottom of the Hebrew Grammar Videos page is a link ("flash cards") to 11 pages of grammar flash cards. Like Karyn Traphagen's Biblical Hebrew Review Guide above, this document is packed with useful charts and rules. Particularly helpful is the second card "Finding the Missing Root Letter" and the 49th card which lists 13 different uses of the qamets-He ending.

They also have 415 Vocabulary (+ 10 particle) Flash Cards each with a mnemonic and picture. Some of the auditory/phonetic mnemonics may work better with a Scottish accent :), but nice work none-the-less!

This document outlines a strategy for learning Hebrew verbs.

These are corrections to the verb paradigm tables at the back of Allen P. Ross, Introducing Biblical Hebrew (Grand Rapids, MICH.: Baker Academic, 2001) 544-554.

These are verb paradigm tables in the unicode SBL Hebrew font for printing or "cutting and pasting."

These are verb worksheets with answer keys (includes both strong and weak verbs and principal parts).