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Hiphil Stem Hebrew
Hiphil Stem Hebrew
HIPHIL STEM
The Hiphil Stem can be used to express a causative type of action with an active voice.
Category I-Guttural Hiphil Stem Perfect weak verbs has a segol prefix vowel rather than a chirek
prefix vowel.
עח
Category II- / Hiphil Stem weak verbs keep the same rules as the strong verbs with these
exceptions:
1. In the Imperfect third-person, feminine plural and second-person, feminine plural, the stem
vowel is a patach rather than a tsere
2. In the Imperative second-person, masculine singular and second-person, feminine plural, the
stem vowel is a patach rather than a tsere.
א
Category III- Hiphil Stem weak verbs keep the same rules as the strong verbs with these
exceptions:
1. In all second- and first-person forms of the Perfect, the stem vowel is a tsere rather than a
patach.
2. In the Imperfect, the stem vowel in the third-person, feminine plural and second-person,
feminine plural is a segol rather than a tsere.
ה
Category III- Hiphil Stem weak verbs keep the same rules as the strong verbs with these
exceptions:
1. The Perfect takes a chirek yod stem vowel and also may take a tsere yod stem vowel.
2. In the Imperfect, the chirek yod stem vowel does not occur in any form.
נ
Category I- Hiphil Stem weak verbs keep the same rules as the strong verbs.
י
Category I- Hiphil Stem weak verbs keep the same rules as the strong verbs except that the
י וֹ
initial in the first root position is changed to a cholem vav ( ).
Sources: The First Hebrew Primer, Third Edition by Simon, Resnikoff, and Motzkin Basics of
Biblical Hebrew Grammar by Pratico and Van Pelt