Sound (Psalm 119:5)

Begin reading from your Hebrew text and do the things you learned previously. Start pronouncing the accented sounds in bold-type with stress.

Transliteration:

a'ha'lai yeekonoo derahai lishmor hukeyha

Diphthongs: Pronounce with an “eye” sound (“ai” as in aisle) a consonant with a patack or kawmetz under it when it is followed by the yud.

Vocabulary Guide:

a'ha'lai yeekonoo derahai lishmor hukeyha

Oh, I wish my ways were established to guard your statutes.

Verb yeekonoo: Niphal, imperfect, pl., masc., 3^rd person (see Gesenius Paradigms, under 5^th horizontal line, second column listing), notice the dagesh in the first radical. Also see Ges. § 51 a and b.

Verb shmor: Infinitive, qal, construct, see Paradigms, under 3^rd horizontal line... same form as qe tol, with the sheva underneath the first radical and the holem above the second, § 114, g

Preposition li

Translation:

Oh, I wish my ways were established to guard your statutes.

A good way to remember words is to write them. Write them in a notebook or in a web document (you can get Hebrew font.) You may also type them here, only in the form I transliterated them. Now, use the block on the right to transliterate the Vocabulary Guide back to the Hebrew transliteration.

Note: Also look up this reference besides your routine work to understand the parts of speech (technique demonstrated beginning with verse 1).

Gesenius Index of Passages: § 151 e (the “wish” expression)

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