a. Translate this passage. Different senses have been given to the words

and state whence the word

2. Ch. vii. II.

? How does the LXX. translate them ? עֲוֹנִי מִנְשׂוֹא וּמִפָּנֶיךָ analyze the word : נְשׂוֹא b. What form is commonly used for

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3.-Ch. viii. 3:

בשנת שש מאות שנה לחיי נח בחדש השני בשבעה עשר יום לחדש ביום הזה נבקעו כל מעינות תהום רבה וארבת השמים נפתהו :

comes?

a. Translate; and add the vowel points, and daghesh where required. b. Notice any peculiarities; stating when the preposition is used to express the genitive: and give the singular of the word n; stating its original meaning and derivation.

4. Ch. viii. 21.

a. Translate; and give the names of the accents occurring, stating whether they are conjunctive or disjunctive.

יוֹם :

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b. Write a note on the use of the infinitive here and state the most frequent modes of employing the infinitive absolute in Hebrew.

a. Translate. From what verbs do m, p, and in come, and what parts of those verbs are they?

בַעֲבוּר and explain the word

b. Trace the meaning of the verb here from its original sense;

a. Translate this passage. What parts of the verbs are and from what verbs do they come ?

6. Ch. xliv. 4.

b. Different translations have been given for p; which of them does the LXX. adopt ?

from its primary sense.

הֵם יָצְאוּ אֶת־הָעִיר לֹא הִרְחִיקוּ וְיוֹסֵף אָמַר לַאֲשֶׁר עַל־בֵּיתוֹ קוּם וְדָךְ

:זן - :

דן

אחרֵי הָאֲנָשִׁים וְהִשַׁגְתָּם וְאָמַרְתָּ אֲלֵהֶם לָמָּה שְׁלַמְתֶּם רָעָה תַּחַת טוֹבָה : .from Latin אֶת־הָעִיר a. Translate, and illustrate the construction

שְׁלַמְתֶּם used here ? Trace the meaning of הִרְחִיקוּ b. How is the verb

7.-Ch. xlix. 6.

in and 3,

a. Translate. State the derivation of the word To; and analyze the word; stating the reasons of the changes in the vowels of the original words.

; אַל תֵּחַד כְּבֹדִי What is the passage of the LXX. which corresponds to .2

how must the reading be changed to suit it?

c, There is an irregularity in the verb ; how may it be explained? The LXX. and Vulgate require different readings of the last word?

8. Give the Hebrew passages corresponding to the following ones from the LXX. :–

Ch. ii. 23. Touro up odos de ring capris uov.

Ch. iv. 3.—καὶ ἐγένετο μεθ ̓ ἡμέρας ἤνεγκε Κάϊν ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν τῆς γῆς θυσίαν τῷ Κυρίῳ.

9. There is another reading of the last passage from the LXX., άTÓKELTαL. What interpretation of the word Shiloh does this require; and what objection may be made to it?

1. From what sources is our knowledge of the true pronunciation of the Hebrew derived? What does the Septuagint version indicate as to the pronunciation of the letter y, and of vocal Sheva?

2. What various uses are assigned to the Hebrew accents? Write down the signs and names of the greatest distinctives, and the great distinctives.

3. From 7, word, is formed □, your words; from п, brother,

. יַעַמְדוּ .the 3 plur עָמַד sing. fut. of 3 יַעֲמוֹד lhis brothers ; from אֶחָיו

Give the general rules as to vowel changes which are exemplified in these words.

4. Prefix the interrogative particle with its proper vowel to the words,

5. Write out in full the preterite and future of the verb, to be.

6. In what classes of verbs, and in what conjugations, is i inserted before the afformatives of the first and second persons of the preterite ?

7. Write down the infinitives and participles of all the conjugations of , to find.

8. Write out in full the futures Niphal and Hiphil of лn, to be broken.

9. Write out the 3 fem. sing. pret. Kal. of the regular verb, e.g. of , with all the pronominal suffixes.

10. How does Gesenius classify feminine nouns? Give the absolute and construct forms, singular and plural, of one noun of each class.

11. Write down the preposition by with the various pronominal suffixes.

12. In what cases do the prepositions 1, 4, and before the tone syllable take Qametz?

13. Mention the chief cases in which the article is found in Hebrew defining ideas, which we are accustomed to express indefinitely.

14. Specify the different uses of the construct state.

15. Specify the different uses of the preterite with Vav conversive. 16. Write notes on the use of the negative particles,,,.

EXAMINATION FOR PRIZES IN ARABIC.

PROFESSOR MÍR AULÁD ALI.

1. How many parts of speech are there in Arabic? Write their names in the native characters; and explain, under each part of speech, what other parts (used in English grammar) are included.

2. What are the Arabic terms for noun and verb, and where do they differ from those in English?

3. How is the noun of time and place formed, and what form does its broken plural take?

4. Decline the plural of the instrumental noun

5. A verb weak in the first radical, where does it differ from the sálim? 6. Where and what irregularities take place if the verb is a

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8. Explain the peculiarities of the following derivatives:—