Lesson 10 | After Jonah

General Resources

• Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide, 2nd ed., Miles V. Van Pelt (260 pages). This tiny book is a condensed version of Pratico and Van Pelt’s grammar. It contains many paradigms, and you could add sticky bookmarks to the ones you want to remember and reference. | Reviews
• A Student’s Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, updated ed., Larry A. Mitchel (88 pages). This guide gives glosses for each Hebrew word occurring 10 times or more. Learning more vocabulary is a key part of loving to read the Bible in Hebrew! | Review
• Bible Vocab app. This vocabulary flashcard app is specifically designed for biblical Hebrew (and Greek). You can easily create vocabulary sets based on frequency and/or biblical passages.
• Handwrite passages in a Scripture journal or in a resource like our own The King’s Bible. | Video review by Adam Howell
• A Reader’s Hebrew Bible. With footnotes giving glosses for words used fewer than 100 times, you can focus on reading whole paragraphs without slowing down to look up unknown words outside your Bible. | Review

Beginning Hebrew Grammars

• Basics of Biblical Hebrew, 3rd ed., Gary D. Pratico and Miles V. Van Pelt (528 pages). This detailed grammar can be supplemented by several accompanying resources, like a workbook and a laminated study sheet. | Review
• Introducing Biblical Hebrew, Allen P. Ross (576 pages). If you wish our Hebrew course contained three times as much information on everything, then this grammar is for you! Each lesson ends with a helpful summary, and there is an even more-condensed summary of each chapter at the back. His Mechanical Parsing Method alone is worth the price of the book. | Review
• Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew, 2nd ed., Gary A. Long (234 pages). This isn’t a textbook for learning Hebrew, like the previous two, but rather an in-depth introduction to both English and Hebrew grammar. It is a stepping-stone between a textbook grammar, like Van Pelt or Ross, and an intermediate grammar, like Arnold and Choi below. | Review

Intermediate Hebrew Grammars

• A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, Bill T. Arnold and John H. Choi (240 pages). This volume and the next focuses on syntax (relationships between words and clauses) rather than on grammar, and so will help move you beyond beginning Hebrew study. | Reviews
• Williams’ Hebrew Syntax, 3rd ed., John C. Beckman (264 pages). This is not only a teaching grammar but also serves well as a reference grammar—a book to keep close at hand when struggling to understand a difficult syntactical construction. It contains brief descriptions of syntactical constructions of nouns, verbs, particles, and whole clauses, as well as the location of lengthier discussions in other major grammars. | Review

Advanced Hebrew Grammars

• Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, Bruce K. Waltke and Michael Patrick O’Connor (784 pages). This is a comprehensive guide to syntax, more detailed and thus more advanced than the others listed here. If you want as much information on Hebrew syntax as possible, make this the grammar you buy.

Studying a Book of the Bible

• Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament. This series focuses on analyzing the original Hebrew, giving the structure of each passage and insightful commentary on each passage, as well as its canonical and practical significance. | Publisher’s page
• Baylor Handbooks on the Hebrew Bible. Each book in this series delves deeply into the grammar and syntax of the Hebrew text; it doesn’t comment on theology or application. | Amazon page (there are more available than this) | Review of Malachi, Part 1