Lecture 24: Biblical Hebrew Grammar I - Dr. Bill Barrick

Dr. Bill Barrick teaches a course on Biblical Hebrew Grammar I.
The Master's Seminary - www.tms.edu/

[@isaiahsikara5157]

Thank you sir, You are are a real blessing to some of us who really want to learn Hebrew and learning the Holy Bible in it's original language, Sho lom a ley khem

[@hitekrednek7664]

This has been amazingly valuable. Thanks to Mr. Barrick and the people at the Master's Seminary who put this up. I started learning the alephbet with HebrewPod101 videos thinking I would "just learn a little Hebrew" and shortly ended up here looking for more. In two weeks I spent watching this series, I've bought a leather-bound BHS reader's edition and have made it through the first chapter of Genesis several times until I'm nearly fluent in it. (Only that chapter, mind you) Here are a few things I've learned in that time which the lectures don't cover. Start with these as soon as you learn the Alephbet and vowel pronunciations. I recommend you buy a Hebrew bible (preferably a reader's edition), a nice a5 notebook, and a quality pen, and practice copying vocabulary lists and Bible chapters out by hand to get really familiar with the writing styles. Spending lots of time writing the language by hand early on helped me a lot. The reader's edition of the Bible makes it easy to define words without needing tons of outside resources or huge lexicons. Other resources are nice, but you can take a reader's edition on a plane with your current Hebrew knowledge and read it slowly, but just fine, and not need the internet or a library to help you with vocab. I recommend you use this series of lectures and Jeff Benner at www.ancient-hebrew.org/learn/learn-biblical-hebrew-introduction.htm and his KZbin channel at kzbin.info I also bought his lexicon, but I could also recommend the Brown, Drivers, and Briggs lexicon, and I'll say DON'T rely on Strong's. I recommend getting some free apps for your phone. Interlinear Bibles, Hebrew reader's Bibles, Hebrew audio Bibles (my favorite is from 9jastar), and a Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary app. I have an app with the top Bible words in flash-card form, and with words divided into lesson-sized groups for easy learning. All these have helped me a fair deal. I recommend you find some useful websites for your PC as well, such as these: www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0101.htm mechanical-translation.org/mtt/G1.html And I recommend lots vocabulary work and reading and listening practice on your own. It takes a long time to become really fluent with vocabulary and style. It's sure gonna take me a while, but I'm not stopping here. See you at the end of the next semester!

[@Pacmanite]

Hooray! I made it to the end of semester 1 lessons and exercises in 25 days of intensive studying over my summer break! What I really recommend to people is to use Memrise for vocabulary work ("Biblical Hebrew: top 1000 words" is a really good free vocab list, which aligns reasonably well with the vocab lists in this course). I learned 412 words on memrise in 25 days. Most days I've been learning 20 words per day, which takes quite some time, but it is very much easier with the memrise app always reminding me what words to review. And there's sound too! Having words constantly pronounced for me as I learn them is a huge help for retention. Also, when doing exercises, have a tab open to a page called "2-letter lookup". It saves a lot of trouble.

[@jerrybtsang6141]

Thank you Carla! I finished watching this Grammar 1 playlist in 3 weeks intensively. Repeated each and every videos 3 times at least (speed 2x lol) ... Did not have the time to grasp the vocabs though. I have not encountered Memrise before, not until I have read this comment! Memrise is so cool and helped me a lot! I can work on the vocabs whenever I have a browser/phone at hand.

[@adommann108]

Dr. Barrick, Thank you and God bless.

[@kenzeier2943]

very thorough but it requires lots of study on your own too

[@Susanna-ti2pv]

Just viewed lesson 1 and 24. I can commit for the other lessons. Any workbooks available?

[@alefbet4251]

Of great help, emphasis is on solid foundation, repetition is really the mother of learning.

[@tidakkacau9450]

Was it in this lecture the Waw-Consecutive ?

[@williamjayaraj2244]

Thank you very much for teaching the Biblical Hebrew sir.

[@sabinalusbo4503]

Thanks a lot🙏

[@gratiaDei777]

Thanks very much