Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Christopher V. Kimball" <mail AT cvkimball.com>]

From Shmuel Bolozky's "501 Hebrew Verbs", Barron's Educational Series, 
Inc., 1996, p. xii, a respected guide for students of  MODERN Hebrew:

"Of special interest are the semantic relations between the binyanim. 
When the total inventory of verbs is considered, little regularity is 
involved. However, among the more frequent, and thus more salient, verb 
forms, a significant degree of regularity is preserved, which should 
somewhat facilitate a learner's ability to begin to guess, given one 
form, what the meaning of a related one might be."

The binyanim provide a means of increasing the language's vocabulary in 
nouns and adjectives as well as verbs.

Chris Kimball