Chapters 1-13 are reasonably polished and this deck will be updated until I have have completed the textbook at the end of semester two (November).
Biblical Hebrew deck with ‘Living’ elements - picture and audio
Pronunciation is modern hebrew, varying slightly from Jo Ann Hackett in a few places:
Hireq is pronounced [i], Qibbuts is pronounced [u] - the same as shureq, Waw diphthongs are ignored; Tsere and tsere-yod are pronounced [ε] - the same as seghol vowels (not consistent - my main audio is from Allen Ross which is seemingly random)
tagging: base category is vocab words and don’t have a ‘heb’ tag. Other or misc words need a category_subcategory tag, such as heb_grammar.
Simple tags: noun, adjective, noun_masculine, conjunction, adjective, pronoun, pronoun_personal
Audio tagging: source is noted, and audio_wr implies that I believe the audio isn’t perfect, but is useful enough, I scale from audio_wr_style - where stylistically isn’t perfect, such as /r/ or /ɹ/ for a ‘resh’ to audio_wr_minor where it is more objectively wrong, such as incorrect syllabification/ accentuation.
Transliterations are done very carefully. Sort field is set to the ‘simple transliteration’ to play nicely with both searching and alphabetical order.
Simple transliteration is latin only characters, at the cost of accuracy. Vowels suffer the most and syllibication is ignored.
Vowels: Sheva is usually left untransliterated. hireq uses “i”, qamats segol uses ‘a’; qamats qatan uses ‘o’.
Consonants: Glottal stops are usually ignored except where they are easily distinguished to an English speaker: between two vowel sounds, and as the last sound in a word.
As Anki doesn’t dislpay html in sort field, I’ve elected for baged kaphet letters to maintain their most useful transliteration, such as ‘b̲’ for vet [v] with a dagesh forte. However since the display field is html, you will still find formatted underlines on applicable characters, such as k̲ for ‘ḵaph’. Gutturals such as kh may be used. (I’m still debating this, with ‘ḵ’ it makes sense to use underlined k̲ since some use ‘kh’ and some use ‘ch’. With shem it’s less clear, I like to favour simplicity and use ‘s’ for both forms of ‘sin’, with ‘shin’, s̲ being underlined, but as an english speaker it’s very easy to default to typing “shem” et.al. I haven’t yet encountered any technical reason to keep this simpler.) BeGeD KaFeT letters without a change in pronunciation are usually marked with a Macron Below, but not a high priority.
‘tet’ is marked with a dot below, ṭ, and simply bolded for simple transliteration (unbolded and with a macron below is ṯaf)
‘kof’ or ‘qof’ is transliterated as “q” for historical/phonenian root/convenience.
‘jod’ or ‘yodh’ is transliterated as “j” for international convenience; obvious to most students since hebrew doesn’t have any “jey” sound.
Acknowledgements:
audio with the tag audio-author are by me, Joshua, and are published under a CC0 license (public domain): you may use for any purpose, including commercial, without permission or acknowledgement.
audio cards with the audio-ross tag are from Allen Ross BIblical Hebrew. Contact the source for feedback or takedown notices. You can find the shared deck I took here: Shared deck: Ross Biblical Hebrew (w/ audio) - AnkiWeb
picture cards with the picture-GCTS tag are from the decks by Quizlet user GCTS-Hebrew, he has some Flickr attribution for his images and I have tried to maintain those where possible. The rest of the images appear to be shared publically by him:
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