Lesson 25 The Niphal Stem - Weak

Now that we have learned the basic ground rules for the Niphal stem in Lesson 24, we turn our attention to the spelling changes caused by verbs with one or more weak letters.

In all stems, weak verbs tend to be much more prevalent. We start by learning the strong verb patterns, then we can “manage by exception” to diagnose the corresponding weak verbs.

LESSON ITINERARY

  1. 1-Guttural Take Hateph Vowels, which changes \(V_P\)
  2. 1-Guttural/Resh Compensatory Lengthening
  3. 1-Yod Becomes וֹ or וָּ
  4. 1-Nun with Silent Sheva Assimilates
  5. 3-Aleph Changes \(V_S\)
  6. 3-Hei Endings

EQUIPMENT CHECK

Before continuing, can you describe the following concepts from Lesson 24?

  • The Niphal \(Pre\) sequences
  • The Niphal \(V_S\) formula