Elementary Biblical Hebrew Vocab (GWC)

"Elementary Biblical Hebrew" Vocab

This deck contains all the vocab from the book "Elementary Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar" by George Athas and Ian M. Young (4th edition). The Hebrew is included as Unicode text and pictures, which makes it portable to virtually any platform, including AnkiDroid on Android. The deck has been optimised for Anki 2.

Using the Deck

The vocab is divided into sub-decks for each chapter and also tagged with reference to word-types.

The current version of AnkiDroid on Android does not yet display Hebrew Unicode correctly due to Android limitations, which is the main reason for using picture files for the questions. Try "Fix for Hebrew Vowels" in "Preferences|Languages" to see whether that improces the display for the Hebrew outside the question field.

Deck Content

The deck contains the following fields:

1. Hebrew
2. English
3. Info - further details on the word or word form (e.g. binyanim or root, unusual plural forms)
4. Related Words - the main words in this deck related to the current word; any words appearing later in this deck (according to card numbers) are marked with an asterisk
5. Notes - this is mainly meant as a help for memorisation; it contains my personal mnemonics, which definitely need to be adapted to your needs!
6. Notes (German) - the same in German! By default, this field should be hidden on the card layout but if you understand German, feel free to remove "display: hidden;" from the css class "notes_german".
7. Type - part of speech
8. Gender/Number - the gender for nouns (if they are feminine or if their gender is suprising) and the gender & number for personal pronouns and numerals
9. Frequency - frequency of all hononyms & binyanim according to BibleWorks
10. EBH-Chapter - EBH chapter number, which is also reflected in the name of the sub-deck
11. EBH-Number - a consecutive card number based on EBH chapters and within each chapter on alphabetical order
12. Number - this is the number used in the deck Biblical Hebrew Vocab (Oak Hill College), which is a more extensive deck (1200 words) based on a few other text books; this number can be used to update the current deck at a later stage
13. Media 1 - contains a picture of the Hebrew word(s)

Card Layout

The default card layout is called "EBH-HebrewVocabCard" and looks as follows:

Front side:
"Media 1" [picture of the Hebrew word(s)]

Back side:
"English" ("Gender/Number")
"Info"; "Related Words" [in green]
"Notes" [in blue]

There are a lot of details on the cards, especially if there are several related words. But all this is just for reference to guide your memory. The only things you are testing yourself on is the field "English" and possibly the field "Gender/Number" (in black). Feel free to edit the layout to display fewer or different fields. You might, for example, want to use Unicode ("Hebrew") instead of the pictures ("Media 1") on the front side.

Credits

This deck includes the freely available font Ezra SIL.

Have fun learning & reading Biblical Hebrew! SDG!
George Whitfield College, Cape Town, January 2013