Lesson 7 | Vocab
Song: לֵב טָהוֹר
Now that you’ve learned commands, you can sing a song like Psalm 51 to the Lord in Hebrew, making requests to him: “Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me.”
This song contains three imperatives and three jussives, mostly using vocab words you’ve already learned.
The third jussive, תִסְמְכֵֽנִי, is unusual: it is in the imperfect form, 2ms, and lacks the negating particle אַל, but the context of the passage shows that it is clearly meant as a request, not as a statement of fact: “sustain me with a willing spirit.”