Product Description

This brand new book presents each verb on a full page, completely conjugated in all tenses. Selected on the basis of conjugation type and scientifically established frequency of use, every verb is illustrated with sentences or short paragraphs that suggest its optimal use.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #390099 in Books
• Published on: 1996-05-01
• Original language: Hebrew, English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 900 pages

Language Notes
Text: Hebrew, English

Customer Reviews

A must-have for every student or speaker of Hebrew
This is an excellent source that I consult almost daily. Putting the biyanim all together fully declined, AND providing examples in everyday conversational Hebrew make the book an absolute joy to consult. As a study aid in the car every day, I photocopy one verb and study it for 1-2 days (I have an hour commute each way, and don't worry, I keep my eyes on the road). I go through each binyan and repeat the verb forms over and over until they stick. I then use the sentences provided with these verbs to make them more meaningful. Two small recommendation would be to add the nekudot (vowel diacriticals) to these sentences to help out beginning/intermediate students, and make a real durable cloth edition--I'm probably going to wear this out. All in all, if you love Hebrew, and you want to be fluent, BUY THIS BOOK for your Hebrew reference shelf!

indispensable tool for navigating through Hebrew verbs: not for beginners
Put simply, this is the book you need to master the Hebrew verbs.

This is not a beginner book. If you don't know anything about Hebrew verb classes, I would learn about them first before getting this book. For reference sake, I took a 2 semester college level Hebrew class and we didn't really use this book till the second semester. But it is hard to imagine where I would be without this book.

The book is primarily targeted for Modern Hebrew but many Biblical words appear here also. All the verbs are pointed! The book also supplements with some of the more "classical" forms (such as some of the different endings in the perfect tense). Infinitives and imperatives are also given. If there is anything you need on a given root, you will find it here. The end of the book also has a nice page lookup of all the verbs and in Hebrew and also in English.

The book tends to add vavs and yodhs where they may not be needed from a Modern standpoint. Sometimes you can just write the holam hasser (the upper dot) or the holam (dot with the vav); they really mean the same thing in Modern Hebrew. In general the book always writes out all the letters, which is annoying since in modern Hebrew this is not always commonplace. But you get used to it.

There are some problems. Somehow inexcusably the book pages go from left to right ... Some of the letters pairs(such as shin/sin) appear together and are not separated; this is actually not so bad if you aren't sure which it is, but it was very confusing until I figured out what they did. And the publisher should have his\her head examined for the atrocious binding; you will find yourself flipping through this all the time and the book doesn't lay very flat.

This is one of those books that won't help you in the beginning of your studies but it will really help you improve your Hebrew once you know some verb basics. Absolutely indispensable.

Not so good
201 Hebrew verbs is much better organized, also it clearly gives every form in which the root is found, in the standard order of the forms. This book gives only some of the forms, and in descending order of frequency of use. It leaves out the rarer forms such as pu'al. Also, it uses far to much full (plene, or malei) spelling for a book with vowels.