Saxony Hebraicum: Biblical Hebrew foundations cheat sheet

Read the actual consonants and pointing, not a guessed transliteration.

Interpret dots and shewa through their grammatical environment.

Distinguish ketiv and qere where the textual tradition marks them.

Modern conversation does not replace pointed Biblical text reading.

Learn absolute, construct and suffixed forms with the noun.

A construct form need not visibly change, as with סֵפֶר.

Check gender, number and definiteness without inventing Latin-style case agreement.

Identify whether a suffix marks possession or an object through its host.

Parse root, stem, conjugation, person, gender and number.

Do not equate every qatal with past or every yiqtol with future automatically.

Stem labels guide analysis but do not mechanically fix lexical meaning.

Check weak-root surface changes and the passage’s narrative sequence.

Locate the predicate and trace all participants through the passage.

Preserve negation, conditions and reported speech.

Distinguish background circumstances from mainline events.

Check connected meaning after assigning grammatical labels.

Distinguish narrator, character, historical evidence and theological interpretation.

Choose lexical senses through actual passage context.

Keep different communities, empires and periods distinct.

Practise German connected translation and oral explanation beyond MCQs.