Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, 2nd English Edition

Author: E. Kautzsch

Publisher: Varda Books

Published: 2009

Language: English

Pages: 637

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Contents

New Page 2

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS viii

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS χ

TABLE OF EARLY SEMITIC ALPHABETS SILOAM INSCRIPTION

INTRODUCTION

� 1. The Semitic Languages in General 1

� 2. Sketch of the History of the Hebrew Language 8

� 3. Grammatical Treatment of the Hebrew Language 17

� 4. Division and Arrangement of the Grammar 22

FIRST PART

ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES, OR THE SOUNDS AND CHARACTERS

CHAPTER I. THE INDIVIDUAL SOUNDS AND CHARACTERS

$ 5. The Consonants: their Forms and Names 24

� 6. Pronunciation and Division of Consonants 31

� 7. The Vowels in General, Vowel Letters and Vowel Signs 35

� 8. The Vowel Signs in particular 39

� 9. Character of the several Vowels 45

� 10. The Half Vowels and the Syllable Divider (Sewa) 51

� 11. Other Signs which affect the Reading 54

� 12. Dages in general, and Dages forte in particular 55

� 13. Dages lene 56

� 14. Mappiq and Raphe 56

� 15. The Accents 57

� 16. Of Maqqeph and Metheg 63

� 17. Of the Qere and Kethibh. Masora marginalis and finalis 65

CHAPTER II. PECULIARITIES AND CHANGES OF LETTERS: THE SYLLABLE AND THE TONE

� 18. In general 68

� 19. Changes of Consonants 68

� 20. The Strengthening (Sharpening) of Consonants 70

� 21. The Aspiration of the Tenues 75

� 22. Peculiarities of the Gutturals 76

� 23. The Feebleness of the Gutturals א and 79

� 24. Changes of the Weak Letters ו and 82

� 25. Unchangeable Vowels 84

� 26. Syllable-formation and its Influence on the Quantity of Vowels 85

� 27. The Change of the Vowels, especially as regards Quantity 88

� 28. The Rise of New Vowels and Syllables 92

� 29. The Tone, its Changes, and the Pause 94

SECOND PART

ETYMOLOGY, OR THE PARTS OF SPEECH

� 30. Stems and Roots ; Biliteral, Triliteral, and Quadriliteral 99

� 31. Grammatical Structure 103

CHAPTER I. THE PRONOUN

� 32. The Personal Pronoun. The Separate Pronoun 105

� 33. Pronominal Suffixes 108

� 34. The Demonstrative Pronoun 109

� 35. The Article 110

� 36. The Relative Pronoun 112

� 37. The Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns 113

CHAPTER II. THE VERB

� 38. General View 114

� 39. Ground-form and Derived Stems 114

� 40. Tenses. Moods. Flexion 117

� 41. Variations from the Ordinary Form of the Strong Verb 118

I. The Strong Verb.

� 42. In general 118

A. The Pure Stem, or Qal.

� 43. Its Form and Meaning 118

� 44. Flexion of the Perfect of Qal 119

� 45. The Infinitive 122

� 46. The Imperative 124

� 47. The Imperfect and its Inflexion 125

� 48. Shortening and Lengthening of the Imperfect and Imperative. The Jussive and Cohortative 129

� 49. The Perfect and Imperfect with Wäw Consecutive 132

� 50. The Participle 136

Β. Verba Derivativa, or Derived Conjugations.

�51. Niph'al 137

� 52. Pi'el and Pu'al 139

� 53. Hiph'il and Hopli'al 144

� 54. Hithpael 149

� 55. Less Common Conjugations 151

�56. Quadriliterals 153

C. Strong Verb with Pronominal Suffixes.

� 57. In general 154

� 58. The Pronominal Suffixes of the Verb 155

� 59. The Perfect with Pronominal Suffixes . . . . .158

� 60. Imperfect with Pronominal Suffixes 160

� 61. Infinitive, Imperative and Participle with Pronominal Suffixes 162

Verbs with Gutturals.

� 62. In general 164

� 63. Verbs First Guttural 165

� 64. Verbs Middle Guttural 169

� 65. Verbs Third Guttural 171

ΙI. The Weak Verb.

� 66. Verbs Primae Radicalis Nun 173

� 67. Verbs ע״ע 175

The Weakest Verbs (Verba Quiescentia).

� 68. Verbs פ״א 184

� 69. Verbs פ״י . First Class, or Verbs originally פ״ו 186

� 70. Verbs פ / / י . Second Class, or Verbs properly 192

� 71. Verbs פ״י . Third Class, or Verbs with Yödh assimilated 193

� 72. Verbs V׳V 194

� 73. Verbs middle i (vulgo ע״י ) 202

� 74. Verbs ל״א 205

� 75. Verbs ל״ה 207

� 76. Verbs Doubly Weak 217

� 77. Relation of the Weak Verbs to one another 219

� 78. Verba Defectiva 219

CHAPTER III. THE NOUN

� 79. General View 221

� 80. The Indication of Gender in Nouns 222

� 81. Derivation of Nouns 225

� 82. Primitive Nouns 225

� 83. Verbal Nouns in General 226

� 84a. Nouns derived from the Simple Stem 227

� 84b. Formation of Nouns from the Intensive Stem 233

� 85. Nouns with Preformatives and Afformatives 235

� 86. Denominative Nouns 239

� 87. Of the Plural 241

� 88. Of the Dual 244

� 89. The Genitive and the Construct State 247

� 90. Real and supposed Remains of Early Case-endings 248

� 91. The Noun with Pronominal Suffixes 254

� 92. Vowel Changes in the Noun 260

� 93. Paradigms of Masculine Nouns 262

� 94. Formation of Feminine Nouns 275

� 95. Paradigms of Feminine Nouns 276

� 96. Nouns of Peculiar Formation 281

� 97. Numerals, (a) Cardinal Numbers 286

� 98. Numerals, (b) Ordinal Numbers 292

CHAPTER IV. THE PARTICLES

� 99. General View 293

� 100. Adverbs 294

� 101. Prepositions 297

� 102. Prefixed Prepositions 298

� 103. Prepositions with Pronominal Suffixes and in the Plural Form 300

� 104. Conjunctions 305

� 105. Interjections 307

THIRD PART

SYNTAX

CHAPTER I. THE PARTS OF SPEECH

I. Syntax of the Verb.

A, Use of the Tenses and Moods.

� 106. Use of the Perfect 309

� 107. Use of the Imperfect 313

� 108. Use of the Cohortative 319

� 109. Use of the Jussive 321

� 110 ׳ .The Imperative 324

�111. The Imperfect with Waw Consecutive 326

� 112. The Perfect with Wäw Consecutive 330

Β. The Infinitire and Participle.

�113. The Infinitive Absolute 339

� 114. The Infinitive Construct 347

� 115. Construction of the Infinitive Construct with Subject and Object 352

� 116. The Participles 355

C. The Government of the Verb.

�117. The Direct Subordination of the Noun to the Verb as Accusative of the Object. The Double Accusative 362

� 118. The Looser Subordination of the Accusative to the Verb 372

� 119. The Subordination of Nouns to the Verb by means of Prepositions 377

� 120. Verbal Ideas under the Government of a Verb. Co-ordination of Complementary Verbal Ideas 385

� 121. Construction of Passive Verbs 387

II. Syntax of the Noun.

� 122. Indication of the Gender of the Noun 389

� 123. The Representation of Plural Ideas by means of Collectives, and by the Repetition of Words 394

� 124. The Various Uses of the Plural-Form 396

� 125. Determination of Nouns in general. Determination of Proper Names 401

� 126. Determination by means of the Article 404

� 127. The Noun determined by a following Determinate Genitive . 410

� 128. The Indication of the Genitive Relation by means of the Construct State 414

� 129. Expression of the Genitive by Circumlocution 419

� 130. Wider Use of the Construct State 421

� 131. Apposition 423

� 132. Connexion of the Substantive with the Adjective . . .427

� 133. The Comparison of Adjectives. (Periphrastic expression of the Comparative and Superlative) 429

� 134. Syntax of the Numerals 432

III. Syntax of the Pronoun.

� 135. The Personal Pronoun 437

� 136. The Demonstrative Pronoun 442

� 137. The Interrogative Pronoun 443

� 138. The Relative Pronoun 444

� 139. Expression of Pronominal Ideas by means of Substantives 447

CHAPTER II. THE SENTENCE

I. The Sentence in General.

� 140. Noun-clauses, Verbal-clauses, and the Compound Sentence 450

� 141. The Noun-clause 451

� 142. The Verbal-clause 455

� 143. The Compound Sentence 457

� 144. Peculiarities in the Representation of the Subject (especially in the Verbal-clause) 459

� 145. Agreement between the Members of a Sentence, especially between Subject and Predicate, in respect of Gender and Number 462

� 146. Construction of Compound Subjects 467

� 147. Incomplete Sentences 469

II. Special Kinds of Sentences.

� 148. Exclamations 471

� 149. Sentences which express an Oath or Asseveration 471

� 150. Interrogative Sentences 473

� 151. Desiderative Sentences 476

� 152. Negative Sentences 478

� 153. Restrictive and Intensive Clauses 483

� 154. Sentences connected by Wäw 484

� 155. Relative Clauses 485

� 156. Circumstantial Clauses 489

� 157. Object-clauses (Oratio Obliqua) 491

� 158. Causal Clauses 492

� 159. Conditional Sentences 493

� 160. Concessive Clauses 498

� 161. Comparative Clauses 499

� 162. Disjunctive Sentences 500

� 163. Adversative and Exceptive Clauses 500

� 164. Temporal Clauses 501

� 165. Final Clauses 503

� 166. Consecutive Clauses 504

� 167. Aposiopesis, Anacoluthon, Involved Series of Sentences 505

PARADIGMS 507

INDEX OF SUBJECTS 533

INDEX OF HEBREW WORDS 544

INDEX OF PASSAGES 565

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