William Robertson, A Gate or Door to the Holy Tongue Opened in English (1653)

Date

1653

Author

William Robertson Note: 13/10/2005

Book title

Sha`ar 'o Petach 'el Leshon Hakodesh A Gate or Door to the Holy Tongue, Opened in English. Containing. 1. The chief and necessary Grounds of the Hebrew Grammar. 2. A Table for the Hebrew Roots, in which all the Roots of the Bible are set down; and a plain and ready way presently to find out the Roots of all Hebrew words which are deficient in one or two of their Radicall letters, is described. 3. A Praxis to the Grammar and the Table, upon the Prophecy by Obadiah; the Decalogue, and the twelfth Chapter of Isaiah: Wwherein the Hebrew text it self, is first set down; and then every Hebrew word of those places of Scripture is read in English letters, then expounded, and Grammatically resolved in English; and all in so plain and easie a way, as may be made use of by any ordinary Capacity of either Sexe

Publication place

London

Printer

James Fletcher

Publisher

Joseph Cranford

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Hebrew

Summary

English names of the Hebrew letters of the alphabet (b1r), and Romanized transliteration of Hebrew words with English translation to illustrate grammatical features (passim)

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: [Hebrew] legnolam, for ever, [Hebrew] le, to, unto, from &c. [Hebrew] gnolam, ever; properly a long time, hidden from us; from the root [Hebrew] gnalam, he hid; and hence it doth often signifie, eternity, evermore, &c. for eternity is altogether hidden from us; the vastnesse of it, being far without and beyond the utmost reach of our deepest apprehensions. (f2v)

Alston

XIV.110-11

Wing

R 1612

Criticisms

Dons, Ute. Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. 13. view record