Lesson 3 - Prayers

debareka yatsah bekal ha'arets
Your word goes out through all the earth.

debareka ner-lerageli
Your word is a lamp to my feet.

yahweh gadol 'atah wegadol shimeka bigebura
You are great, O Lord, and your name is great and mighty.

Lesson 3 - Hebrew today

• See the Hebrew Wikipedia entry for har, "mountain."

• See the word gan in this sign for the "Garden Tomb" (one of the possible sites of the burial and resurrection of Christ):

Lesson 3 - Notes for Preaching and Devotions

• dabar is sometimes translated "promise" in the Bible--usually for the promises of God. As in English, in which 'word' can sometimes mean 'promise' ("I give you my word"), 'word' and 'promise' have some semantic ovelap in Hebrew; when "the word of the Lord" comes, it comes as a sure promise.

• In John 1, the incarnate Christ is revealed as the logos, the "Word" made flesh (and logos can be used to translate dabar in the Septuagint; while dabar is used in Hebrew translations of John 1).

• Rabbinic tradition contains some imaginative etymologizing, which in some cases holds little linguistic weight but can help us, with the rabbis, enter the text more deeply. Here's an example that ties 'erets to ratsah and ratsohn.

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Lesson 3 - Word Studies

'erets, Turner p.22,23
dabar, Turner p.46,47
dabar, Went
ra', Tverberg p.99,100
tob, Kaminski

Lesson 3 - Key Verses

dabar
‏אַחַ֣ר׀ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה הָיָ֤ה דְבַר־יְהוָה֙ אֶל־אַבְרָ֔ם בַּֽמַּחֲזֶ֖ה
’aḥar| hadəḇārîm hā’ēlleh hāyâ ḏəḇar-yəhwâ ’el-’aḇərām bammaḥăzeh (Gen 15:1) (read)
After these things he word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision.

nēr-ləraḡəlî ḏəḇāreḵā (Ps.119:105)
Your word is a lamp to my feet.

ḇwōḵîm kāl-hā‘ām kəšāmə‘ām ’eṯ-diḇərê hatwōrâ (Neh.8:9)
All the people wept when they hear the words of the law.

haššōlēḥa ’imərāṯwō ’āreṣ ‘aḏ-məhērâ yārûṣ dəḇārwō (Ps.147:15)
He sends out his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly.

yiṯəmāḵə-dəḇāray libeḵā (Prov.4:4)
Let your heart keep my words.

kāl-hadəḇārîm yəḡē‘îm (Eccl. 1:8)
All things are wearisome.

'erets
bərē’šîṯ bārā’ ’ĕlōhîm ’ēṯ haššāmayim wə’ēṯ hā’āreṣ (Gen 1:1)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

layhwâ3 hā’āreṣ ûməlwō’āh (Ps.24:1)
The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.

ra'ab
wəqāmû šeḇa‘ šənê rā‘āḇ ’aḥărêhen wənišəkaḥ kāl-haśśāḇā‘ bə’ereṣ miṣərāyim wəḵillâ hārā‘āḇ ’eṯ-hā’āreṣ (Gen 41:30)
And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land.

har
mah-nnā’wû ‘al-hehārîm raḡəlê məḇaśśēr (Isa.52:7)
How lovely on the mountains are the feet of the one who brings good news.

hehārîm wəhagəḇā‘wōṯ yifəṣəḥû lifənêḵem (Isa.55:12)
The mountains and the hills will break forth before you.

tob
wayyarə’ ’ĕlōhîm kî-ṭwōḇ (Gen 1:10)
And God saw that it was good.

... wəḏāḇār ṭwōḇ yəśamməḥennâ (Prov.12:25)
[Anxiety weighs down the human heart,] but a good word makes it glad.

gadol
gāḏwōl yəhwâ ûməhullāl mə’ōḏ (Ps.48:1)
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised!

mē’ên kāmwōḵā yəhwâ gāḏwōl ’atâ wəḡāḏwōl šiməḵā biḡəḇûrâ (Jer. 10:6)
There is none like you, O Lord, you are great, and your name is great in might.

qaton
... ḥayywōṯ qəṭannwōṯ ‘im-gəḏōlwōṯ (Ps.104:25)
[Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there,]
creatures small and great.

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Lesson 3 - Useful Exercises

• Cook p.65-66
• Dobson p.51,54,56

Lesson 3 - Key Concepts

Key Concepts

adjectives, number and gender (L.22 / Cook ch. 9.1, Dobson ch.5, Parsons u.5.1-5.2, Pratico ch.7)
adjectives, function (L.23 / Cook ch. 9.1, Dobson ch.5, Parsons u.5.3-5.5, Pratico ch.7)

Less-Key Concepts

quirks in the definite article (L.21)

Lesson 3 - Vocab

(L. p15)

dabar (VPF 30, Strong's H1697, Davar 259)
ra'ab (VPF 381, Strong's H7458, Davar 560)
'erets (VPF 21, Strong's H0776, Davar 108)
har (VPF 89, Strong's 2022, Davar 132)
'am (VPF 27, Strong's H5971, Davar 190)
gan (VPF 767, Strong's H1588, Davar 204)
tob (VPF 92, Strong's H2896, Davar 395)
gadol (VPF 93, Strong's H1419, Davar 394)
qaton (VPF 477, Strong's H6996, Davar 459)
yapeh (VPF 749, Strong's H3303, Davar 61)
ra' (VPF 153, Strong's H7451, Davar 396)
me'od (VPF 83, Strong's H3966, Davar 293)

Lesson 3 - Fancy Terms in Plain English

(I'm starting with Lesson 3, where I got stuck, but I'll try to go back and do the previous lessons, for my own benefit if no one else's.)

Atrributive adjective - adjective that combines with a noun to make a phrase (the blue car)

Predicate adjective - adjective that combines with a noun to make a sentence (the car [is] blue)

Substantive adjective - adjective that functions as a noun (the blue [one])