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    Hiphil Stem: ( hz@kiyrhe caused to remember / he reminded) I The Hiphil Stem can be used to preserve the simple action of the Qal stem. The Hiphil Imperfect is formed with a patach vowel in the preformative and a chirek yod stem vowel.

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    Hiphil Stem: ( hz@kiyrhe caused to remember / he reminded) I The Hiphil Stem can be used to preserve the simple action of the Qal stem. The Hiphil Imperfect is formed with a patach vowel in the preformative and a chirek yod stem vowel.

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    Learning Hebrew: Hiphil Stem

    HIPHIL STEM
    The Hiphil Stem can be used to express a causative type of action with an active voice.

    Qal Stem: ‫( זָכַר‬he remembered)


    Hiphil Stem: ‫( ִהזְכִיר‬he caused to remember/he reminded)
    The Hiphil Stem can be used to preserve the simple action of the Qal stem.

    Qal Stem:‫שכַם‬ָ (he arose early)


    Hiphil Stem: ‫שכִים‬ְ ‫( ִה‬he arose early)
    The Hiphil Stem can be used to make a declarative statement about someone or something being
    in a certain condition or state of being.

    Qal Stem: ‫( ָרשַע‬to be guilty)


    Hiphil Stem: ‫( ה ְִרשִי ַע‬to declare guilty/to pronounce guilty)
    The Hiphil Stem can be used to make an intransitive verb into a transitive verb.

    Qal Stem: ‫( גָדַ ל‬to be great)


    Hiphil Stem: ‫( ִהגְדִ יל‬to make someone [or something] great)

    HIPHIL – STRONG VERBS


    The Hiphil Perfect is formed with the ‫ ִה‬prefix and a chirek yod or patach stem vowel.
    Qal Stem: ‫ָקטַל‬
    Hiphil Stem: ‫קטִיל‬ְ ‫ִה‬
    The Hiphil Imperfect is formed with a patach vowel in the preformative and a chirek yod stem
    vowel in every form except the third-person, feminine plural and the second-person feminine
    plural.

    Qal Stem: ‫יִקְט ֹל‬


    Hiphil Stem: ‫קטִיל‬ ְ ַ‫י‬
    The Hiphil Imperative if formed with a ‫ ַה‬prefix and either a tsere or chirek yod stem vowel.
    Qal Stem: ‫קְט ֹל‬
    Hiphil Stem: ‫קטֵל‬ְ ‫ַה‬
    The Hiphil Infinitive Construct is formed with a ‫ ַה‬prefix and a chirek yod stem vowel.
    Qal Stem:‫קְט ֹל‬
    Hiphil Stem: ‫קטִיל‬ ְ ‫ַה‬
    The Hiphil Infinitive Absolute is formed with a ‫ ַה‬prefix and a tsere stem vowel.
    Qal Stem: ‫קְט ֹל‬
    Hiphil Stem: ‫קטֵל‬ְ ‫ַה‬
    The Hiphil Participle is formed with a ‫ ַמ‬prefix and a chirek stem vowel.
    Qal Stem:‫קֹטֵל‬
    Hiphil Stem: ‫קטִיל‬ְ ‫ַמ‬
    HIPHIL STEM – WEAK VERBS
    Category I-Guttural Hiphil Stem weak verbs keep the same rules as the strong verbs except for
    the Hiphil Perfect.

    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

    © Rachel-Esther bat-Avraham, 2009


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