[2775] A GRAMMAR OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE. BY MOSES STUART Associate Professor of Sacred Literature in the Theological Institution FIFTH EDITION CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. ANDOVER: GOULD & NEWMAN, PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS. NEW YORK: H. GRIFFIN & CO. Codman Press. 1835. Entered According to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by MOSES STUART, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. 012-8-3/LUB Gift Tappan Presb, Ass 12-7-1931 PREFACE. I HAVE revised the present edition of my Hebrew Grammar throughout, and made a considerable number of additions and corrections of a subordinate kind. Most of the section on the quantity and quality of the vowels I have written over again, and given the whole a shape, which, I would hope, will render it more intelligible to beginners. It is the most difficult part of the grammar, so far as a satisfactory mode of representation is concerned. The dubious appearance of so many vowels makes the subject obscure to a tyro; and scarcely any labour which a grammarian can bestow upon it, will make it explicit at first. The numbering of paragraphs, in a few cases, has necessarily undergone some change in the remodelling of this section, and to these the references in the Chrestomathy will not exactly correspond. Still, the student who is advertised of this, will experience no serious difficulty in finding the principles that correspond to his references, although they may now bear a name different from the former one, or be designated by a different number. I have availed myself, in the present edition, of the corrections and of some additions, which my friend Mr. J. Seixas, in a very obliging manner, has suggested to me. For his attention bestowed on this subject, and the labour which he has performed in making the suggestions just noticed, I return him my most sincere thanks and acknowledgments. A fuller catalogue still of irregular forms, according to a desire which he has expressed, would have been made out, had the limits of my work permitted. I have added a Synoptical View of all the Conjugations of the Hebrew Verbs, at the close of the Paradigms; for which I doubt not I shall receive the thanks of the beginner, and even of the proficient in Hebrew. Besides being inserted in the Grammar for permanent preservation, it accompanies each grammar, on a broad sheet, which can be pasted on stiff paper, and hung up before the eyes of the student, and thus save very much of his time in turning over the leaves of his grammar in search of particular forms of verbs. The reader will perceive by comparison, that the present edition is somewhat enlarged. This is owing in part to the mode of printing |