Exam-style questions by topic — Edexcel GCSE Biblical Hebrew
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Component 1: Language - Compulsory content: Comprehension
A passage states that a servant was sent ahead with ten camels and gifts, and that he stopped at a well outside a city in the evening, when women come out to draw water. Which inference about the servant's plan is best supported?
Practise Component 1: Language - Compulsory content: ComprehensionComponent 1: Language - Compulsory content: Translation from Biblical Hebrew to English
Which English word gives the correct meaning of the Biblical Hebrew verb שָׁמַע?
Practise Component 1: Language - Compulsory content: Translation from Biblical Hebrew to EnglishComponent 1: Language - Optional content
A Biblical Hebrew noun appears as דָּבָר in one sentence and as דְּבָרִים in another. Which morphological change has taken place?
Practise Component 1: Language - Optional contentComponent 1: Language - Skills
Read this unseen Biblical Hebrew narrative passage: «וַיִּשְׁלַח הַמֶּלֶךְ אֶת־עֲבָדָיו אֶל־הֶהָרִים לְבַקֵּשׁ אֶת־הַנָּבִיא, כִּי יָרֵא הַמֶּלֶךְ מִפְּנֵי אוֹיְבָיו. וַיָּשׁוּבוּ הָעֲבָדִים אֶל־הָעִיר וְלֹא מְצָאוּהוּ.» Why did the king send his servants to the mountains, and what was the outcome?
Practise Component 1: Language - SkillsComponent 2: Literature - Skills
In the story of Joseph, his brothers sell him and later travel to Egypt during a famine. Why do the brothers come before the Egyptian official without recognising him as Joseph?
Practise Component 2: Literature - SkillsComponent 2: Literature - Study of the set texts
In Biblical Hebrew oath formulas found in the set texts (such as «כֹּה יַעֲשֶׂה־לִּי אֱלֹהִים וְכֹה יוֹסִיף אִם...»), the conditional particle «אִם» ("if") is used after an oath invocation to mean "surely not", whereas «אִם־לֹא» ("if not") means "surely". Why do conditional particles reverse their apparent polarity in oath formulas?
Practise Component 2: Literature - Study of the set texts
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