Lesson 7 – Tav, Dalet
Consonants t The "Tav" is pronounced "t" as in "tune." d The "Dalet" is pronounced "d" as in "dig."
Vowels
/a This vowel combination (sh’va and segol) is called a "chataph segol" and is pronounced "eh" as in "help." oa The "cholam" is pronounced "o" as in "open."
Practice ;t it et ,t ?t Ad od ;d id ed ,d ’d ?d `1 d;d ted t,d d?t dot tAd tod t?d t’d `2 dyim !;t tom l?a b’d t;b tyeb dAt `3
Vocabulary Moses - h,vm15 `2God - ~yihol?a `1 (With) - t,a16 `4Gave (m) - !;t’n `3 Sabbath - t;B;v `6Teaching - h’rAt17 `5 Student (f) - h’dyim.l;T `8 Student (m) - dyim.l;T `7 Studies (f) -t,d,mAl `10 Studies (m) -demAl `9 Beginning - tyivaer18 `11
Sentences Peaceful Sabbath. - ~Al’v t;B;v `1 And they will keep the Sabbath. - t’B;V;h t,a Wr.m’v.w `2 In the beginning God created. - ~yihol?a a’r’B tyivaer.B `3 A student studies Torah. - hr’AT t,d,mAl h’dyim.l;T `4 Moses gave to us the Torah. - h’rAt;h t,a Wn’l19 h,vm !;t’n `5 A student studies the Torah. - h’rAt;h t,a demAl dyim.l;T `6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
15 Remembering the C+V+C+V rule, the Hebrew word for Moses, h,vm, appears to be missing a vowel after the "mem." Since Hebrew requires a vowel after each consonant, the vowel is the "cholam" and is placed above the letter "shin" in the same place as the dot above the right leg of the shin. The dot in this case serves two purposes.
16 The Hebrew word t,a is occasionally used in the text to mean "with" but is more frequently used (about 7,000 times) as a marker for the direct object of the verb and is untranslatable into English. For example, in the sentence; "I made the dinner"; the phrase "the dinner" is the direct object and would be preceded by the word t,a. If the sentence were; "I made a dinner," t,a would not precede it since "dinner" in this sentence is not a direct object.
17 The word hrAt, while often translated as "law," actually means "teaching" and is also the Hebrew name for the first five books of the Bible as they contain the "teachings" of God.
18 An exception to the rule requiring the C+V+C+V pattern is the word tyivaer. The aleph does not always require a vowel after it.
19 When the letter "lamed" is used as a prefix it means "to" or "for." The suffix Wn means "us." combined, this prefix and suffix mean "to us."
