Reading Scripture Like a Detective

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Hebrew I and Hebrew II (or equivalent Hebrew study in another capacity)

This course is composed of ten lessons, with each lesson ending in an assignment. A single Vocab lesson will take the average student 5-6 hours to complete, and a single Grammar lesson 7-8 hours. Students are invited to progress at their own pace. Your coach will inquire as to your intended pace shortly after you begin and help keep you accountable to stay on schedule.

Our language courses all end with an assessment to determine your grasp of the skills learned and material covered. Successfully passing an assessment requires a high degree of understanding and is meant to serve as a motivation to take your study seriously as well as a catalyst to improve the standard of Bible study in the Biblearc community.

Students who successfully complete the course and pass the assessment will earn Biblearc’s Hebrew III Certificate. If you do not pass an assessment, you may retry after one week’s time.

This course is currently available in English only.

Interested in helping us develop this course in other languages? Let us know.

This course series takes a unique approach to learning Biblical Hebrew, utilizing worship songs in Hebrew as the basis for learning. By immersing ourselves in Hebrew songs, absorbing vocabulary and studying grammar becomes more of a joyful activity and less of a chore. This method also directs our study of Biblical Hebrew straight to its end goal from the start—to glorify the God who has given us his priceless word. Thus, the aim of this course series is to take someone without any knowledge of Hebrew and to equip him/her to begin reading and understanding the text.

Hebrew III greatly expands students’ knowledge of verbs, covering the imperfect form, imperatives, and infinitives. We also will examine cantillation marks in more detail, all while continuing to add on more vocabulary. These topics round off all major grammatical features of biblical Hebrew, making “Reading the Old Testament” a truly fitting subtitle and legitimate expectation for students.

[[ This series includes Hebrew I, II, III, and IV—equivalent to more than one year of seminary-level Hebrew. ]]

Reading the Old Testament

Hebrew III

Lesson 1 | Vocab

Lesson 3 | Vocab

Lesson 5 | Vocab

Lesson 7 | Vocab

Lesson 9 | Vocab

Lesson 6 | Commands

Lesson 8 | Infinitives

Lesson 10 | Cantillation

Lesson 4 | Stems in the Imperfect

Lesson 2 | Qal Imperfect

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Hebrew Reading Self-Assessment

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Devotional — תּוֹרָה

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Song: טוֹב עָשִׂיתָ

Instructor’s Work

Devotional — Narrative Tracks

Grammar Quiz

Lesson Objectives

[2] Weak Verbs

[3] In Progress

Song: קוּמִי אוֹרִי

Memorization

Song: כְּאַיָּל

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New Vocabulary

Practice

Devotional — בְּרִית

[1] Form

[5] In the Songs We’ve Learned

Devotional — כַּאֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתָ יֵעָשֵׂה לָּךְ

[1] Stem Paradigm

[4] Hiphil and Hophal

Song: קוֹלִי אֶל־יְהוָה

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[2] Qal and Niphal

Song: יהוה בְּהַשָּׁמַיִם חַסְדֶּךָ

[3] Piel and Pual

Devotional — זֶרַע

Three Bad Options

[4] The Sequential-Imperfect

Course Survey

Devotional — וְהַקְשִׁיבוּ לָדַעַת בִּינָה

[3] In the Songs We’ve Learned

Song: לְכוּ נְרַנְּנָה לַיהוָה

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Assignment

Song: לֵב טָהוֹר

[1] Imperatives

Devotional — וּבְהֵמָה רַבָּה

Enjoying Wordplays

By the end of this lesson, you will learn the following:

The characteristics of the infinitive-construct form

The form and functions of the infinitive-absolute

Devotional — הֵעֲבַרְתָּ הַעֲבִיר

[2] Infinitive-Absolutes

Song: שׂוֹשׂ אָשִׂישׂ

Devotional — בְּאֵר שָׁבַע

The Shape of the Canon

Song: טוֹב לְהֹדוֹת לַיהוָה

Song: רוּחַ אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה עָלָי

Devotional — בְּפִקֻּדֶיךָ אָשִׂיחָה

[2] Ketiv and Qere

Vocabulary: Multiple Choice

[1] Infinitive-Constructs

Grammar: Multiple Choice

[3] Verbless Clauses

Translating: The 4 Steps

[1] Cantillation Marks

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Reciting: Exodus 34:5–7

[2] Cohortatives and Jussives

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