Resources for the Study of Biblical Hebrew

In the beginning

• Another Hebrew Alphabet Chart  
• Lesson One: In the Beginning (as per title)
• Hebrew Alphabet Lesson and Chart (needs a particular font - for information click here)
• Hebrew Alphabet and material to learn it
• Alphabet Lessons
• Online Hebrew Tutorial (elementary; deals with both Modern Israeli Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew)
• Numerical Values of Hebrew Letters (useful to find your verse)

Vocabulary

• Davar - Biblical Hebrew Vocabularies
• Vocabulary Database for Kittel, Hoffer and Wright, Biblical Hebrew to be used with Flashworks
• Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary Tutor

Lexicon

• Introduction to BDB
• BDB
• Online Hebrew Lexicon or click here to go to it directly (to download the necessary font click here)
• Online Two-Letter Dictionary (Tyndale House)
• Gesenius' Biblical Hebrew & Aramaic Dictionary

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• Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (United Bible Societies) - work in progress

Read the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew

• TanakhML Project (BHS)
• BHS (Hebrew Bible - XML Text - from the Michigan-Claremont electronic text at the Oxford Text Archive)
• Mechon Mamre
• Snunit
• A version of the St. Petersburg/Leningrad Codex Text in Unicode (includes morphological analysis)

Listen to the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew

• Real Audio-files-Readings from the Pentateuch (Torah)
• Real Audio-files-Readings from the Prophets
• Hebrew Bible in Hebrew (mp3) Chapter by Chapter
• Hebrew Bible in Hebrew (mp3) You may also click here. For another site, click here
• Psalms

Online Biblical Hebrew Grammars

• John A. Cook and Robert D. Holmstedt, Ancient Hebrew: A Student Grammar  (recommended)

• A Concise Linguistic e-Introduction to Classical Hebrew (by Vincent DeCaen; "work in progress" - NOT available at present)
• Fred Putnam, Toward Reading & Understanding Biblical Hebrew

• For More Advanced Students
  • Bruce K. Waltke and M O'Connor, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
  • GKC (1910)

   

Grammar: Helpful Handouts, Charts and Exercises

• The Handy-Dandy Hebrew Grammar Chart by Shawn Madden

• The Strong Verb Chart

• Biblical Hebrew Grammar - Summary Sheet
   

• Handouts by Naama Zahavi-Ely (College of William and Mary)

• L. Windsor, Verb paradigms
• J. Ted Blakley, Resources for Biblical Hebrew Grammar - Charts and Tables

Manuscripts

• The Aleppo Codex (a readable online version of some books)
• Biblical Manuscripts: St. Petersburg Codex (formerly, the Leningrad Codex)

Additional Resources

• Resources for Learning Biblical Hebrew (by Tyler F. Williams)
• A Biblical Hebrew Bibliographic List  Another Biblical Hebrew Bibliographic List

For advanced students:

• Daily Hebrew Blog
• Daily Hebrew - Glossary

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• Hebrew Cantillation (Introductory essay and links, including links to tunes - Wikipedia)
• The Masoretes and the Punctuation of Biblical Hebrew (British and Foreign Bible Society - downloadable pdf file)
• Hebrew Cantillation Marks - Helmut Richter (includes charts and explanations)
• Ta'amim (Hebrew Cantillation Marks and tunes)

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• Works in Progress - Vincent de Caen

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• Hebrew Unicode Page

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• Ugaritic Grammar and Biblical Hebrew Grammar in the Twentieth Century (Mark S. Smith)

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• Bibliography of Semitic Linguistics (G. del Olmo Lete)

Some basic help in linguistic concepts:

• Semantics - Predicates and Arguments
• SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms
• General Linguistic Terms
• English Sentence Structure and Variety (in English)
• English Syntax - Terms and Concepts