HEBREW GRAMMAR

AN INTRODUCTORY

HEBREW GRAMMAR

WITH

PROGRESSIVE EXERCISES IN READING, WRITING, AND POINTING

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In demy 8vo

HEBREW SYNTAX

BY THE LATE

A. B. DAVIDSON, L1TT.D., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF HEBREW AND OLD TESTAMENT EXEGESIS NEW C0Ll.EGE1 EDINBURGH

THIRD EDITION. 10s. NET

"A companion volume to the author's 'lntroductory Hebrew Grammar/ the excellence of which may be inferred from the number of editions through which it has passed. . . . This 'Syntax' is, undoubtedly, the best of its size hitherto produced in this country, and is in every way well adapted for students and for practical teaching."-London Quarterly Review.

EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET

AN INTRODUCTORY

HEBREW GRAMMAR

WITH

PROGRESSIVE EXERCISES IN READING WRITING, AND POINTING

BY THE LATE

A. B. DAVIDSON, L1TT.D., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF HEBREW, ETC., IN THE NEW COLLEGE, EDINBURGH

REVISED THROUGHOUT BY

JOHN EDGAR McFADYEN, B.A.(OxoN.), M.A., D.D.

PROFESSOR OF OLD TESTAMENT LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND THEOLOGY TRINITY COLLEGE, GLASGOW AUTHOR OP

u 'IHE MESSAGE OF ISRAEL 11 (THE CHALMERS LECTURES) " INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT u ETC.

(TWENTY-FOURTH EDITION)

EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET

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1 & ~ CLAR~ EDINBURGH

LONDON: SIMPKIN MARSHALL, LIMITED

NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRJBNER's SON8

FIRST EDJTION ?

Tw&NTIEIH EDITION

(?nlirely re-set, anti r,vised throughout)

" TWENTY-FIRST EDITION

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TWENTY-SECOND EDITION (revised. tllrouglloul)

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TwKNTY?THIRD EotTION

TWENTY?POURTH EDITION

PREFACE TO THE NINETEENTH EDITION.

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AT the request of the publishers I have undertaken the revision of the late Professor A. B. Davidson's Hebrew Grammar. With some reluctance, I confess; for it is always dangerous to touch the work of another man, especially when that other is a master, and his work, in its original form, has achieved an almost unique popularity, as attested by eighteen successive editions. But two considerations decided me to make the attempt. Firstly, eighteen years of experience in teaching the grammar and dealing with students in their initial struggles with the language, have convinced me that there were not a few perplexities which did not readily resolve themselves to men who had only an average stock of patience and linguistic interest. And secondly, the publishers gave me an absolutely free hand. Of the liberty thus generously accorded, I have made very ample use. With the exception of the vocabularies (which, however, have been slightly extended by the addition of proper names) and of the exercises for translation (which again have been in places considerably modified) little remains of the original Grammar but the order of the sections.

The following are some of the features of that Grammar . which seemed to call for special attention in a revi5ion. (i.) The very important sections I-:IO, on a complete under-

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