Lecture 6: Biblical Hebrew Grammar I - Dr. Bill Barrick

[@HT-yf7pk]

1:55 review vowels 10:40 explaining vowel/phonetic charts and vowel changes, p28 and p39 32:25 for the 1st exam, know: alphabet in order, names of vowels, transliteration, vocabulary 35:15 review vocal shewa 46:20 review silent shewa 55:00 review pathach furtive 58:00 review syllabification 1:20:10 practise reading Zeph 3:8 1:24:00 preview ex 4 1:27:35 memorise names of vowels and consonants p26

[@rachimbaskin6559]

I'm a former yeshiva guy - Hebrew my second language since childhood - and this man, this course, is high level. I'm learning stuff I'd never known. Also, I'm a tutor, and appreciate what a superb instructor Dr Barrick is. 'He'ach! He'ach!

[@ricardopicon3617]

Agree with you, definitely he is teaching a high level !!!

[@eugeneyk1]

His pronunciation is very poor.

[@Tilde1337]

@@eugeneyk1 why did you say that?

[@Tilde1337]

Personally my only problem with this channel is the videos are too long

[@TheMldytwkr85]

Thank you to Dr. Bill Barrick! Took Hebrew learning to the next level ever since the pandemic hit. Still struggling with silent and vocal shewas but being able to go back into this lesson helps a ton.

[@cosmokaulitz22]

This class is a blessing. Complementing the classes while reading psalms in Hebrew really helped me a lot...

[@adamfaheem326]

Thank you for uploading these courses. You are doing a great job

[@forthepeoplenow]

Really great job explaining

[@gda295]

v useful sheva revision about 1:25:00... and thnx to those concerned in making the written resources available [ and so easily available.] thnx!

[@kijihigh6826]

Very specific teaching. No true speaking Hebrew person can teach on this level and be explicit.

[@sridhardevadas2131]

The lessons are very good and interesting. I am an Indian residing in Mumbai and got really blessing by your classes. Will you visit India any time please let us know. Maria Sridhar Devadoss, Mumbai. India

[@Pacmanite]

Looking back from the end of this semester, I just want to encourage those still studying at this point! You're more than halfway through the boring phonology! And yes, phonology is boring, compared to actually reading meaningful words, and that's okay. If you practice your Hebrew vocab on Memrise with the "Biblical Hebrew: Top 1000 words" list, you can practice saying your words aloud after hearing the pronunciation (albeit, a modern pronunciation, but the main features of the sound are the same and you can alter how you say it according to what you learn in this course). I think it's better to be able to pronounce words you actually recognise as words with meaning, than to read aloud meaningless syllables.

[@samf8192]

Do you know what the transliteration is for pathach yod, which makes the “eye” or long i sound? Dr. Barrick mentioned this full vowel in passing, but I’m interested in knowing what the transliteration is.

[@samf8192]

Nevermind. I found my answer in this video. In the lecture 4 video where I got the information on the pathach yod, there happened to be an accent. So, in this video, I found out that the pathach can be tone-long and function as a long i (and that the hiriq can function as a long a I believe) in the presence of an accent. I'll just wait and see if there are any differences in transliteration and if only certain types of accents can change vowels to tone-long.

[@kijihigh6826]

For beginning students I believe that Dr. Barrick moves too quickly with too much information, although he is an excellent teacher. I had to wait to exhale…whew. However I repeated the course and it all fell into place the second time around. I am a perfectionist so I wanted to achieve the highest opportunity to learn this language. The first time, I was unable to absorb all of the information into my tiny “non-new language brain.” The word conjugation of “shamar” was extremely helpful in memorizing the differences between the vocal and silent SHEWA. It is all good. Be patient and not intimidated by all that you must learn. This is definitely God’s Holy Language and He will bring you through, if it is His Will and your desire. The best to all of you! I wonder how these students are doing now….Chad, Scott, Jeff, Jeremiah,James, Michael, Robert,Tom, Kyle, Gus, ETC, ETC, ETC?

[@VirginiaGeorge]

I’ll say that I am taking Hebrew at Western Seminary right now, and this is about how quickly we’re going as well. There are a lot of expectations in a Master’s level course, and they kind of throw you in the deep end.

[@jinibell4649]

Hello from Luxembourg. It’s taken me a whole month to get to lecture 6. I’m a slower learner, at 64, so love it that I can stop the video and go back if I didn’t understand something. I have a workbook that I’m using concurrently, and also listening and memorising ( or trying to) various OT scripture from KZbin videos. I love it. Thank you for all these videos.

[@kijihigh6826]

@Virginia George….I definitely jumped into the deep end. I begin learning Hebrew right at the Masters level. I learn languages rather easily and I love the challenges. I can take my time, pause, take a deep breath and move forward. I love Dr Barrick’s teaching method but for me since I am not a scholar or studying to be one, I can most definitely take my time and learn it line by line, here a little there a little. I will learn on my own terms. Love studying.

[@kijihigh6826]

Thank the Creator that the teachers in Jerusalem are offering Biblical/Modern Hebrew which is much more simpler to understand, write, hear, pronounce, break into syllables, and most of all……SPEAK!!! AMEN.

[@6et6stude]

I would love to have a copy of the text book you are using. Where can I get one?

[@grantcaldwell1938]

4 years later but his website has everything on it

[@nickprades7305]

This class is necessary for us to be more what we could be according to be Gods desire for us for we are not brute but indeed humans designed by God to be holy and understanding how far we've become we need the DNA of creation which referred to be many Hebrew scholars. May God bless Dr barrick and all of his students including us. Shallom

[@YaelBerman]

Lehishtaha´ot or leishtahavot? I think the last word in minute 1:19:31 should have another waw (a consonant one).

[@RaymondPetersonTheMoreIvreet]

+Yael Berman you are right. That verb means "to bow down or to serve"

[@nancytobesman-globalwomenp1953]

lahishtahawoth

[@kardongpusa4756]

Dr. Barrick sir you said in around 17 to 19 minutes that a pure vowels are the short vowel, but later on,you also said that the pure vowels are the full letter vowels which include shurek which is by the way a long vowel.Can you clarify it sir.Tnk u

[@kardongpusa4756]

correction it is from 18:30 to 20 minutes

[@nancytobesman2882]

patah is not pronounced "a" as in "cat" according to the Yemenite Jews of the first diaspora. The "a" as in "cat" is the segol vowel sound, which is also standard Arabic "a" short vowel sound

[@susemcx]

Exactly! Since patach often goes with gutturals this makes complete sense. It is more difficult to pronounce the cat "a" in front of a chet than an a as in gut. But as he says if you learn by phonolgy and by ear, you have to make the distinction. Our teacher warned us to do that, also because of the consonants, that basically sound the same. Otherwise, I love his teaching style and his methodology.

[@samf8192]

I almost agree, and you two might (and probably do) know more than me, but there is the possibility that seghol morphed into an ah sound as Yemen is a part of Arabia. It could be the same reason that waw probably morphed into a v sound as the Ashkenazi Jews lived in Germany.

[@kijihigh6826]

The Yemenites have this language down to a science.

[@rennyskiathitis8178]

for anyone who cares about pronunciation completely ignore how he pronounces his words. Besides that the course is wonderful.

[@stephenhenderson1210]

With regards to general pronunciations, I understand that there are different dialects in practically every language. He had stipulated at the beginning that he was using a classical pronunciation, which, if I understood him correctly was mostly Sephardic with some Yemini (not sure of spelling or if I understood him correctly). One thing that I am not understanding in this lecture is how is he comparing the cherek (sp?) with i in bit or machine. I don't know of any US dialect that pronounces the i the same in bit and machine. The only i pronunciation that I know is very different in 'bit' and 'machine', yet it appears that he has them both as the same pronunciation for the cherek. His explanation of pronouncing ockla reminded me of another professor's explaining the pronunciation of Naomi, the mother-in-law of Ruth.

[@NomosCharis]

I think he teaches that the cherek can have two different pronunciations, "ih" or "ee," depending on the context.

[@fraukeschmidt8364]

Not a single woman in the class.:-( But at least I am here, studying via the internet.

[@rubysummit7781]

It's a seminary training pastors. Scripture indicates only men are to be pastors. A woman can still take the course online for her own edification but not to instruct the church congregationally.

[@kijihigh6826]

Me too@Frauke

[@VirginiaGeorge]

Scripture is sometimes misinterpreted that women can’t be pastors, and there are plenty of traditions that support women in ministry. Misguided theology is precisely why people should continue studying the languages and read what the Bible said when it was written, not just how it was translated and further interpreted.

[@Joy-tb1cp]

Modern Hebrew is FAR easier.