Hebrew

Use a linguistics chart of the head to explain where all the sounds are located. Give students a tactile and visual feel for where sounds are Becomes important later for sound changes Give some history of the alphabet and trace how it came down to English trace some letters out acrophonically (eg aleph > alpum) point isn’t really to teach ancient abjab, but to interest students, and show what is there also may give some hooks for memory, but won’t have time to do all letters Discuss the concept of a word family, like a fact family in math. We have this in English, but nowhere near to the degree in Semitic languages.

◌ used as place holder to put vowels and accent marks (added Alfred text-expander shortcut as !circ) U+05AB ◌֫ the ole, used as a generic accent mark ֫ (added Alfred text-expander shortcut as !ole) ֫Copy

Qatal/Perfect Singlar Plural 3M ◌◌◌ ◌◌◌וּ 3F ◌◌◌ָה — 2M ◌◌◌תָּ ◌◌◌תֶּם 2F ◌◌◌תְּ ◌◌◌תֶּן 1C ◌◌◌תִּי ◌◌◌נוּ Yiqtol/Imperfect Singlar Plural 3M י◌◌◌ י◌◌◌וּ 3F תּ◌◌◌ תּ◌◌◌נָה 2M תּ◌◌◌ תּ◌◌◌וּ 2F תּ◌◌◌ִי תּ◌◌◌נָה 1C א◌◌◌ נ◌◌◌ Imperative Note: The Imperative is the same as the Yiqtol/Imperfect but removes the preformatives. Singlar Plural 2M ◌◌◌ ◌◌◌וּ 2F ◌◌◌ִי ◌◌◌נָה

The SBL Hebrew Font User Manual is worth a skim. There is a lot that goes into a unicode Hebrew font whent the cantilation and other Hebrew Bible marks come into play. One issue is normalization. You should not normalize Hebrew fonts because it may affect the ordering of vowels and cantilation marks. Psalm 27:13 is an example of a problematic Hebrew verse with extra markings that are in the text but unknown: ...

A table of the Hebrew Piel Verb paradigm for דב׳׳ר