Biblical Hebrew - Possessive Endings

This animation shows how possessive endings are formed from the personal pronouns.

[@KingOfTheDerp]

I really love how you do your videos, I thought conjugation for Hebrew looked random but know I know that it is thoughtful and elegant! You are a great teacher! I also really appreciate how you teach without mentioning religion, there are many people of different faiths who want to learn Hebrew and you make your videos more welcoming and inclusive, and people aren't turned away by any proselytization. I also like how this is all free and you have little or no ads on your videos, and no ads on your teaching videos. If you charged money for this I probably would not have bothered to see it, and you give a lot of respect to this special language by not having ads. I can tell you are teaching out of passion, which is a beautiful thing! Thank you again!!

[@gilliancox-woolven5399]

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[@juliannalin19]

Thank you! So many similar grammar rules and words to Arabic. Of course they are both Semitic languages so it makes learning Hebrew easier!

[@garywinders3707]

I have been trying to understand the possessive case in biblical Hebrew and this has been Very helpful. Thank you Tim; Shalom

[@Jorge17275]

Same here. I finally got a clue. Shalom

[@wongelinor4717]

great presentation showing clearly the rule for the conjugation! Thank you!

[@hopesteven4120]

What software do you use for these wonderful videos?

[@mamamarsha]

Your videos help me so much. Thank you!!

[@conchitaholloman5278]

This video looks great for a tutorial. Please let me how to do it. You make your videos more welcoming and inclusive, and people aren't turned away. Please make this more simple.

[@sidhasudharshan2746]

Perfect! Thanks

[@ErikVisser94]

Awesome this is gold!

[@joshsilva6450]

תודה רבה!!!

[@timmcninch]

בבקשה

[@miltonfinch4788]

I was wondering if you could do a video on adjectives in Biblical Hebrew. If they are universal for the most part, when you do the video, could you use the specific verse of Exodus 13:21. Especially where it’s pertaining to “of a” where it’s explaining the cloud referenced by day? I would be grateful. Thank you! This present video on possessive pronouns was extremely helpful! Your visual illustrations as you explain are beyond excellent.

[@timmcninch]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@jw3003]

This video looks great for a tutorial. Please let me how to do it.

[@murphyslaw2356]

I was just wondering if there is a list of signal letters because I never knew about these and it would be very helpful

[@ErikVisser94]

In 2 kings 2:49 in the word my staff in hebrew משענתי from the normal word staff משענה there is an extra ת . I have been busy understanding this now for 2 hours and I think it should be מעשני. What is going on here. Does it mean when last letter is ה it always turn into an ת ???

[@hectorpg1181]

I have seen many possessives for the first person of the plural ending in ”enu” ”einu” for example Meshiheinu ugoalenu

[@byronsimmonds3186]

יפה!

[@opalsirius8484]

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[@mayanlogos92]

But when you use etc שלי שלך and when just the endings?

[@timmcninch]

Just the ending is more typical in Biblical Hebrew, and more formal Modern Hebrew. שלו is used in more informal and spoken Hebrew.

[@mayanlogos92]

@@timmcninch oh.. ok... that explains why is so much more of ...של Thank you very much

[@samf8887]

The possessive case or genitive case was not present in biblical hebrew. But suffixes used are...important differentiation in case anyone is confused. It showed up later. The reason this is important is because it messes with the translation of important verses. So when someone's is adding in that extra little ending it changes it. Really it isn't present at all and is assumed.

[@timmcninch]

Are you saying that these endings don’t indicate possession? They are all over biblical Hebrew. But maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment...

[@timmcninch]

Are you saying that these endings don’t indicate possession? They are all over biblical Hebrew. But maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment...

[@timmcninch]

Are you saying that these endings don’t indicate possession? They are all over biblical Hebrew. But maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment...

[@aishaahmed3736]

​@@timmcninch This person is perhaps an Arabic speaker. What we call "case" in English is a grammar term which basically means any method in a language to determine a word's grammatical role in a sentence (for more information, you can search it on Wikipedia). Arabic has three cases while Hebrew (Biblical or Modern) has none. Those cases are called nominative, accusative and genitive. Nominative indicates the subject, accusative the object, and the genitive has two major uses in Arabic, one of them to indicate possession in an Arabic grammatical construction that is virtually identical to the Hebrew סמיכות. Arabic has, along with the genitive case, possessive suffixes similar to the ones in Hebrew. Example: the Arabic סמיכות (romanized): baytu-rajulin "house of a man". "Rajulin" is in the genitive case. However, you could also form words like "rajuluhu", meaning "his man". ​

[@rafaelrmora594]

Waaaaaoooooo how come So excellent way despair??

[@michellekgross5627]

It may be more intuitive to present the shel forms, then use those endings .

[@timmcninch]

If I ever redo this video lesson, I'll probably use shel as a teaching tool for possessives. Biblical Hebrew, however, doesn't regularly use shel.

[@grosslearning5121]

@@timmcninch thanks for pointing this out - prompted me to search on where shel comes from. I don't think that Google allows links, but there is a Brill article and a stackexchange one: one has shel as deriving from a change in syllable boundary base word she-le-noun and the other article posits asher le- as the base word. My thought: if shel were to be Biblical, it would be hidden in how the written word was spoken.

[@timmcninch]

@@grosslearning5121 Right. "She" is most likely a contraction of "asher" (both function as a relative pronoun). "She" starts to appear in late biblical Hebrew, but the further contraction of she+le+noun > shel is after the biblical era.

[@JetADR]

The ם is not Pronounced 'mame' like name, but it is pronouced 'mem' like the word them

[@go_to_explore]

damm, hard :)