The Concise Grammar of the Hebrew Language which is here offered to you, kind reader, the author undertook to write at the request of certain of his friends who were diligently studying the Sacred Tongue, inasmuch as they recognized him rightly as one who had been steeped in it from his earliest youth, was diligently devoted to it for many years afterward, and had achieved a complete understanding of the innermost essence of the language.
All who are acquainted with this great man will cherish and revere this book, although, like many of his other works, it is unfinished because of the untimely death of the author. We present it to you in its incomplete state, kind reader, because we do not doubt that the author’s and our effort will be of great benefit to you and quite worthy of study by you.