Sunday, January 29, 2012

How to Cheat in Biblical Hebrew

Here is a graph on the number of occurrences of each Hebrew Verb Binyan in the Old Testament. As you can see the vast majority of occurrences are in the Qal Binyan. Years ago, I taught a kindergarten boy in Sunday School, and every question you asked he would answer with "Jesus". If you asked who died for our sins, he would answer "Jesus". If you asked who built an ark, he would answer "Jesus". If you asked, who discovered America, he would answer "Jesus". He had learned through observation that whenever a question is asked in church... odds are, the answer is probably Jesus. As an intelligent Hebrew student... you too can play the odds.. when parsing a verb, just say Qal and odds are.. you will be golden.

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