E 
Verbs, ‘as we have before faid, eve ftrialy. fpeaking, 
only one conjugation, or are indeclinable. The radical word 
ied, and the 
ebrew language are de- 
ers 
noted by the technical terms of kal, niphal, fy me: and ho- 
r to ee i pes 
_ Hithpabel bears a 
near eablaace to ie : - aa Gree 3 ; itis 
formed by prefixin m to the radical letters, and com- 
monly fignifies to + the aétion of the verb to one’s 
felf, or frequently to repeat the action. The letters prefixed 
to the radical letters or inferted between them are called the 
“ ee of the i ae Hebrew verbs have 
1%» 
: w verbs are per erfed or de teeta Lspors when 
i retain a thee radical letters through mood and 
form ; and defeétive when they reject one or idee radical 
letters i infome of their parts 
Nounsare seme from verbs, I. By abftraction of radical 
letters ; 2. By commutation of ashe at ahd: ; 3 -By pre- 
fixion of ferviles ; = “hy infertion of the fame $ 
addition of the fame. Nouns formed by thé fae or 
addition of ferviles are denominated heémantic, becanfe the 
ers which compofe the ie ION, credidi, are. 
i i i to he —_ = 
For the’ Hebrew tl ee 
Benonpe the radical letters. + Rej the 
Grammar, ed. 2. 1788. Robertfon’s Editio Secunda Gram- 
matice Hebrae, Edinb. 1783. See Masora and 
_Hesrew, Rabbinical, or Modern Hebrew, is the lan- 
hereof, is the Hebrew and 
as esr saat cok they have confiderably en- 
% al ( ; : fa) + 4 
ongues 
others from the 
ge that fpoken in the Pin where Ba Oe, 
ve : 
al be eee 
Simon, in his “ Hift. C 
ee 
“GEBREW music. - 
= mae. of the feminine fingularts changed into J). ‘OF Affixes 
~ and fi aa fee thefe terms. a 
inflexion is carried on by fervile - 
_ materials of great 
_ ticle in the mufical bt except what the Bible itfelf 
The oot dire€tions will ferve for finding _ 
on copious Bee 
. Vieux _ 
Tae: iss 2 chap. 27) eae that ‘ga is Lie any 
art or {cience, but the rabbins have treated thereof in it, 
hey have tranflated moft of the ancient weiss ma- 
thematicians, a{tronomers, and phyficians ; and have wrote 
themfelves on mott fubjeéts : they do ie want even eB 
and poets. Add, that this language, notwithitanding it is 
fo crowded with foreign words, has its beauties vilible enough 
in the works of thofe who have written well in it. 
M. Simon fays, it is impoflible to reduce it into an art, or 
fyftem of rules ; Ba feveral learned men are of another 
fentiment ; didied 
n 
which yet goes no farther than the learn-, . 
uxtorf feconded him, at the end of his 
rew Staab: where we have an additional piece, 
gt the title “* Leétionis Hebrexo-Germanice Ulus & 
Exercitatio.”” Others have gone yet farther: Maius has 
given us a rabbinical grammar, at Gieffen, under the 
title of * Johannis Maii if a ‘Habbameas 7? and 
before him Sennert had done the fam of Dabs cat {mus : 
i, es Precepta Tar gumico-Talmadico-Rabbinia ”  Wir- 
wre an. 1666. 
EW Mufic. Notwithtlanding the unremitting labours 
of se “are fathers of the hates and the learning and dili- 
ence of ecg estas tranfla w 
cae. can be acquired for this ar- 
contains; as the firit periods of the hiitory of the ancient 
Hebrews, from its: high antiquity, can receive no illuftration 
from cotemporary hiftorians, or from human teflimony. 
h 
order 3 a ta! 
rival and ea it may aa will not be eee its ufe in a 
General Hiltory of Mufic ; as it will at leaft thew, that this 
art has.always had admiffion into the religious ceneiouae. 
public feftivals, and focial amufements of mankind. 
The conftrnétion and ufe of mufical inftruments havea very 
early place among the inventions attributed to the firft inhabit- 
ants of the globe, by Mofes : for, Genefis, chap. iv. ver. 21, 
Jubal, the fixth defcendant from iat ain, is called ‘ “ the father 
of all fuch as handle the harp and o 
But though this circumitance is ned fo foon in the 
Pentateuch, yet it could have aes ho a fhort time, 
befor the deluge, A. M. 1656; confequently the world muit 
ve been p ny centuries re the invention took 
place. And with refpect to the inftrument called an organ, 
in the Englifh verfion of this e, it mult not be ima- 
gined that fuch a noble and complicated machine is there 
implied, as the prefent inftrument of that name. In ecg 
Hebrew it is called Auggab, which, fay 
ula. The 
was a kind of fyrinx, or tilt we inftead 0 of, 
and organ, hds stages nob raites pfaliry and Rees: 3 
n- the Syriac, se aba et i hrafe, i 
magifler omnium canentium in sabes fie cantium — 
eb-organi. Nablion is the Hebrew word for 
Arabic has nine et citharam ; and the French has /e 
violon et & Bed jek 
eure at. 
of all par uF the Rod, not ot hain sy were a real, 
properties of the Hebrew sabe have 
ie ie es iach os. oor ak sas 
ufe in their own countries, : 
or 
