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GESENIUS’
HEBREW GRAMMAR 
AS EDITED AND ENLARGED BY THE LATE
E. KAUTZSCH
PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF HALLE
SECOND ENGLISH EDITON
REVISED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TWENTY-EIGHTH GERMAN EDITON (1909)BY
A. E. COWLEY
WITH A FACSIMILE OF THE SILOAM INSCRIPTION BY J. EUTING, AND A TABLEOF ALPHABETS BY M. LIDZBARSKI
OXFORDAT THE CLARENDON PRESS
Oxford University Press, Amen House, London E.C. 4
GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTONBOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI CAPETOWN IBADAN
Geoffrey Cumberlege, Publisher to the University
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Gesenius, F. W. (2003).
Gesenius' Hebrew grammar 
(E. Kautzsch & S. A. E.Cowley, Ed.) (2d English ed.) (Page i). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems,Inc.
 
ECOND ENGLISH EDITION 1910REPRINTED LITHOGRAPHICALLY IN GREAT BRITAINAT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD, 1946, 1949, 1952, 1956FROM CORRECTED SHEETS OF THE SECOND EDITION
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
T
HE
translation of the twenty-sixth German edition of this grammar, originally prepared by the Rev. G. W. Collins and revised by me, was published in 1898. Sincethat date a twenty-seventh German edition has appeared; and Prof. Kautzsch wasalready engaged on a twenty-eighth in 1908 when the English translation was becoming exhausted. He sent me the sheets as they were printed off, and I beganrevising the former translation in order to produce it as soon as possible after thecompletion of the German. The whole of the English has been carefully comparedwith the new edition, and, it is hoped, improved in many points, while Prof.Kautzsch’s own corrections and additions have of course been incorporated. As before, the plan and arrangement of the original have been strictly followed, so thatthe references for sections and paragraphs correspond exactly in German and English.Dr. Driver has again most generously given up time, in the midst of other engagements, to reading the sheets, and has made numerous suggestions. To him alsoare chiefly due the enlargement of the index of subjects, some expansions in the newindex of Hebrew words, and some additions to the index of passages, whereby wehope to have made the book more serviceable to students. I have also to thank myyoung friend, Mr. Godfrey R. Driver, of Winchester College, for some welcome helpMany corrections have been sent to me by scholars who have used the former Englishedition, especially the Rev. W. E. Blomfield, the Rev. S. Holmes, Mr. P. Wilson, Prof.Witton Davies, Mr. G. H. Skipwith, and an unknown correspondent at West Croydon.These, as well as suggestions in reviews, have all been considered, and where possible, utilized. I am also much indebted to the Press-readers for the great carewhich they have bestowed on the work.Finally, I must pay an affectionate tribute to the memory of Prof. Kautzsch, whodied in the spring of this year, shortly after finishing the last sheets of the twenty-eighth edition. For more than thirty years he was indefatigable in improving thesuccessive editions of the Grammar. The German translation of the Old Testamentfirst published by him in 1894, with the co-operation of other scholars, under the title
 Die Heilige Schrift des A Ts
, and now (1910) in the third and much enlarged edition,is a valuable work which has been widely appreciated: the
 Apocryphen und  Pseudepigraphen des A Ts
, edited by him in 1900, is another important work: besideswhich he published his
Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen
in 1884, two useful brochures
 Bibelwissenschaft und Religionsunterricht 
in 1900, and
 Die bleibende Bedeutung des A Ts
in 1903, six popular lectures on
 Die Poesie und die poetischen Bücher des A Ts
in 1902, his article ‘Religion of Israel’ in Hastings’
 Dictionary of the Bible
, v. (1904), pp. 612–734, not to mention minor publications. His death is aserious loss to Biblical scholarship, while to me and to many others it is the loss of a.
בא חמשי םכח ןב
in correcting proofs of the Hebrew index and the index of passages.
 
most kindly friend, remarkable alike for his simple piety and his enthusiasm for learning.A. C.
M
AGDALEN
C
OLLEGE
, O
XFORD
,
Sept.
1910.
FROM THE GERMAN PREFACE
T
HE
present (twenty-eighth) edition of this Grammar,
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like the former ones, takesaccount as far as possible of all important new publications on the subject, especiallyJ. Barth’s
Sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Semitischen
, pt. i, Lpz. 1907;the important works of C. Brockelmann (for the titles see the heading of § 1; vol. i of the
Grundriss
was finished in 1908); P. Kahle’s
 Der masoretische Text des A Ts nachder Überlieferung der babylonischen Juden
, Lpz. 1902 (giving on p. 51 ff. an outlineof Hebrew accidence from a Babylonian MS. at Berlin); R. Kittel’s
 Biblia Hebraica
,Lpz. 1905 f., 2 vols. (discriminating between certain, probable, and proposedemendations; see § 3 g, end); Th. Nöldeke’s
 Beiträge zur semit. Sprachwissenschaft 
,Strassburg, 1904; Ed. Sievers’
Metrische Studien
(for the titles of these striking workssee § 2 r). The important work of J. W. Rothstein,
Grundzüge des hebr. Rhythmus
,&c. (see also § 2 r), unfortunately appeared too late to be used. The two largecommentaries edited by Nowack and Marti have been recently completed; and in P.Haupt’s Polychrome Bible (
SBOT.
), part ix (Kings) by Stade and Schwally was published in 1904.For full reviews of the twenty-seventh edition, which of course have beenconsidered as carefully as possible, I have to thank Max Margolis (in
 Hebraica
, 1902, p. 159 ff.), Mayer Lambert (
 REJ.
1902, p. 307 ff.), and H. Oort (
Theol. Tijdschrift 
,1902, p. 373 ff.). For particular remarks and corrections I must thank Prof. J. Barth(Berlin), Dr. Gasser, pastor in Buchberg, Schaffhausen, B. Kirschner, of Charlottenburg, (contributions to the index of passages), Pastor Köhler, of Augst, Dr.Liebmann, of Kuczkow, Posen, Prof. Th. Nöldeke, of Strassburg, Pastor S. Preiswerk  junior, of Bâle, Dr. Schwarz, of Leipzig, and Prof. B. Stade, of Giessen (died in1906). Special mention must be made of the abundant help received from three oldfriends of this book, Prof. P. Haupt, of Baltimore, Prof. Knudtzon, of Kristiania, andProf. H. Strack, of Berlin, and also, in connexion with the present edition, Prof. H.1
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The first edition appeared at Halle in 1813 (202 pp. small 8vo); twelve moreeditions were published by W. Gesenius himself, the fourteenth to the twenty first(1845–1872) by E. Rödiger, the twenty-second to the twenty-eighth (1878–1910) byE. Kautzsch. The first abridged edition appeared in 1896, the second at the same timeas the present (twenty-eighth) large edition. The first edition of the ‘Übungsbuch’(Exercises) to Gesenius-Kautzsch’s Hebrew Grammar appeared in 1881, the sixth in1908.SBOT.
SBOT.
= Sacred Books of the Old Testament, ed. by P. Haupt. Lpz. andBaltimore, 1893 ff.REJ.
 REJ.
= Revue des Études Juives. Paris, 1880 ff.
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