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adjectives Aleph alphabet apoc apocopated Arabic Aramaean aspirated Ayin belong Class common commonly Comp composite Sheva Conjugations consonants Const Daghesh forte Daghesh lene Declension derived dialects distinguished euphonic exhibit feminine follows Future gender Greek ground-form Guttural Hebrew language Hebrew letters Hholem Hiph Hiphil Hithpael Hophal immutable Imper Infinitive interpunction Kaph Lamedh long vowel Mappiq Maqqeph masc Matres lectionis Metheg mixed syllable moveable mutable Niph Niphal NOTE nouns omitted orthography Paradigm paragogic Participles Pattahh Pattahh furtive Pause Accents penacuted penult Piel plur plural Praet Praeter preceding vowel prefixed Prepositions probably Pronouns Pual pure syllable Qamets Hhateph Qibbuts quiesce quiescent Radical Resh respect Seghol short Hhireq short vowel Shureq simple Sheva Sing sometimes sound stands student Suff Suffixes supra Syriac Syriasm tense tone-syllable triliteral Tsade Tseri unfrequently usage Verse Vide Vowel-letters words written Yodh
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Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 1 - Ethiopic bears a special resemblance, has, in modern times, a great variety of dialects, as a spoken language, and is spread over a vast extent of country. But, so far as we are acquainted with its former state, it appears more anciently to have been principally limited to Arabia and Ethiopia.
Page v - Gesenius' great work is incorporated in it. In regard to the plan of the work, he does not profess to be a mere translator of Gesenius, whose grammar is too large for common use ; but he has adopted the general method of this writer, as his model. He has made a diligent use of him for the purpose of information. In some cases he has seen reason, as he believes, to differ from him, especially in regard to arrangement ; but not in any important matter. Whoever will take the trouble to compare, will...
Page ii - ... and also to an Act, entitled, " An Act- supplementary to an Act, entitled, ' An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the limes therein mentioned ;' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical, and other prints.
Page 3 - Hebrew language in 1G11 had been a dead language for more than two thousand years, and though these men (the forty-seven translators aforesaid) were renowned for their piety and learning, yet very few, if any of them, were competent to so important a task. In fact, the Hebrew language may be said only to have been recovered within the last century by modern Orientalists : and from the...
Page 5 - The origin of the Hebrew language must be dated farther back than the period, to which we can trace the appellation Hebrew. It is plain, from the names of persons and places in Canaan, that, wherever Abraham sojourned, he found a language in which he could easily converse, viz., the Hebrew or Phoenician language.
Page 12 - Hebrew was ret.uiied, both in writing and conversation ; or in writing, after it ceased to be the language of conversation, it is impossible to determine. The coins, stamped in the time of the Maccabees, are all the. oriental monuments we have, of the period that elapsed between the latest canonical writers, and the advent of Christ; and the inscriptions on these are in Hebrew. At the time of the Maccabees, then, Hebrew was probably understood, at least, as the language of books ; perhaps, in gome...
Page 12 - Hebraeo-Aramaean, as it was spoken, in the time of our Saviour. From the time when Hebrew ceased to be vernacular, down to the present day, a portion of this dialect has been preserved in the Old Testament. It has always been the subject of study among learned Jews. Before and at the time of Christ, there were flourishing Jewish academies at Jerusalem ; especially under Hillel and Shammai. After Jerusalem was destroyed, schools were set up in various places, but particularly they flourished at Tiberias,...
Page 5 - ... was the author of some other political pieces of a similar description. Among the crimes of this man were the calumnies with which he assailed the character of the queen of France.
Page 2 - Aramaean dialect, such as was spoken in the time of our Saviour among the Jews. The West Aramaean had flourished before this for a long time in the east and north of Palestine ; but it now advanced farther west, and during the period that the Christian churches of Syria flourished, it was widely extended. It is at present almost a dead language, and has been so for several centuries. The Hebrew may be regarded as having been a dead language, except among a small circle of literati, for about the...