Lull Yoseph: Hand-Book of Hebrew Abbreviations (Classic Reprint)

Of all literatures, the Hebrew is, I think, the most difficult to master. I ts student has to surmount numerous obstacles before he can acquire any degree of freedom with the idiom and the phraseology of its language. Except the Holy Scripture and the Liturgy, almost all Hebrew works are printed in Eabbinical round characters, and those, too, without any vowel-points. It is well known that words of this kind can be read in several ways :consequently the student has with great difficulty to make out the true reading and sense of such words from the context. A gain, the language in which most Hebrew works are written, though generally it goes under the common name of Hebrew, presents certain diversities of dialect and style. But the greatest difficulty is the short and abbreviated forma of certain words and phrases, and the names of Eabbies, and their works; which, again, are not used by every writer in the same uniform way. As every author is at liberty to contract any words or phrases he likes, the student is often utterly at a loss. But a good writer who coins any new abbreviations, uses the original words and phrases first in their complete forms before using their contractions. Such Abbreviations are generally marked by two oblique strokes over them ;but as words used technically, rhetorically, and in other special ways, are also marked with similar strokes, it is often most difficult to distinguish between them. Some, however, take but one stroke and show thereby that they want only their terminations. The student has also to use his discretion as to where a servile letter may or may not be included.
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