501 Hebrew Verbs

by Shmuel Bolozky

Book Overview

Learning Hebrew becomes easier with Barron's 501 Hebrew Verbs. Each verb is listed alphabetically in easy-to-follow chart form--one verb per page with its English translation. The author presents the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812094689
• ISBN13: 9780812094688
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 900 Pages
• Weight: 2.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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.

Invaluable

Excellent for students of the Hebrew language after they have had a little bit of additional training preferably in a classroom. I have been using this book for over 3 years and find it invaluable. Don't forget, it has 501 roots and this actually means a lot more verbs. Easy to use once you get used to it. Very worthwhile for any student of this difficult language.

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!

Excellent -- more than just a reference book!

This is a wonderful book, and one that I use often. I am fluent in Hebrew, but I find the example sentences most useful, and the fact that the author has gathered under each root the related words belonging to that root.

Excellent - Not just another reference

Anybody who has studied Hebrew is familiar with the standard books of verb tables which fully conjugate a small number of example verbs, and leave the rest of the work, thumbing back and forth matching numbers and lists, to the student. This book FULLY declines 501 verb roots, or several thousand verbs, in alphebetical order. Asside from the fact that the book presents answers rather than puzzles, my favorite part is the example sentances given for each verb, which go a long way to clearing up what the binyanim actually mean. I'd suggest this book to any Hebrew student.