A WITHOUT POINTS: DESIGNED TO FACILITATE THE STUDY OF THE SCRIPTURES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, In the Driginal; AND PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO THE USE OF THOSE BY JOHN SMITH, A. M. Profeffor of the Learned Languages, at Dartmouth College. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS. BOSTON: PRINTED BY DAVID CARLISLE, For JOHN WEST, No. 75, CORNHILL 1803. District of Newhampshire-TO WIT : BE it remembered, that on the fourth day of January, in the tenty feventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, JOHN SMITH, of the faid District, hath depofited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit, "A Hebrew Grammar, without Points: defigned to facilitate the ftudy of the Scriptures of the Old Teftament, in the original; and particularly adapted to the use of those who may not have Inftructors. By JOHN SMITH, A. M. Profeffor of the Learned Languages, at Dartmouth College," in conformity to the Aa of the Congress of the United States, intituled " an A&t for the encouragement of learning, by fecuring the copies of maps, charts, and books to the Authors and Proprietors of fuch copies during the times therein mentioned." District Clerk of JONA. STEELE, {Newhampshire. A true copy of Record, Atteft-JONA. STEELE, Clerk. ΤΟ S48 1803 MAIN THE LEARNED AND PIOUS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, PARTICULARLY The CLERGY, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THIS GRAMMAR IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, By their Obedient, And Humble Servant, THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS. III. Of Words and their Divifion. IV. Of Nouns; Regimen; Comparison of Adjec- tives; the Declenfion of Nouns, &c. VIII. Of Verbs; Declenfion of regular Verbs; Ger- unds, &c. Page 9 19 HEBREW GRAMMAR. SECTION I. OF LETTERS AND READING. 1. The Letters in Hebrew are twenty two, of which the following table fhows The Names. Form. Num. Finals. Dilat. Simil Sound or Power. A, as in all. B. Vau Zain Heth Teth 3456789 Z. G hard, as in go, give. E, as in me. "U, or o in tômb; or the [French ou. H. Th, or the Greck e. I long, or the Greek K; or e hard, as in came. L. * In Neh. II. 13. n is used for p: and in Ifai. IX. 7. 172703, .למרבה for 1 + Thousands may be expreffed by a perpendicular stroke, drawn over the following letters, 8, 2, 2, 7, 11, 1, 1, 17, 10 : as, N, 1600; 2, 2000, &c. B |