Hebrew Root Deck

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A flashcard deck for the top 1000 Hebrew roots by OT frequency. Each card front shows the consonantal root; the back shows the gloss, attested verbal stems, and derived nominals.

Card Design

• Front: Consonantal root (e.g., אבד)
• Back: Vowel-pointed form; table of verbal stems with individual glosses and frequencies; table of derived nominals with POS, gloss, and frequency
• Frequency field: Combined OT occurrence count (sum of all lemmata in the root family)

Files

File	Purpose
hebrew-root-deck.txt	Anki import — requires Hebrew Root notetype (3 fields: Front, Back, Frequency)
hebrew-root-deck-fd-all.txt	Flashcards Deluxe — all 1000 roots
hebrew-root-deck-fd-100.txt	Flashcards Deluxe — freq ≥ 100
hebrew-root-deck-fd-50.txt	Flashcards Deluxe — freq 50–99
hebrew-root-deck-fd-10.txt	Flashcards Deluxe — freq 10–49
hebrew-root-deck.md	Summary report with top-50 table

Anki Setup

Step 1 — Create the note type

1. Open Tools → Manage Note Types
2. Click Add, choose Add: Basic, and name it Hebrew Root
3. Click Fields… and confirm the fields are in this exact order:

#	Field	Purpose
1	Front	Consonantal root (the question)
2	Back	HTML answer (stems, nominals)
3	Frequency	OT occurrence count — enables filtered decks (e.g., Frequency:>100)

Step 2 — Set the card templates

Click Cards… in the Manage Note Types dialog and enter the following:

Front Template:

<div style="font-size:2.5em; direction:rtl; text-align:center;">{{Front}}</div>

Back Template:

{{FrontSide}}
<hr>
{{Back}}

Styling (optional — adds borders and centering to the stem and nominal tables):

.card {
  font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
  font-size: 16px;
  text-align: center;
}

table {
  margin: 8px auto;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

th, td {
  padding: 3px 10px;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

Step 3 — Import the deck

With the Hebrew Root note type in place, import via File → Import and select hebrew-root-deck.txt.

Filtering in Flashcards Deluxe

Use the band files to study by frequency tier: - fd-100.txt — most common roots (≥ 100 occurrences) - fd-50.txt — moderately common (50–99) - fd-10.txt — less common (10–49) - fd-all.txt — complete deck

Data Sources

• Root groupings: OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (HebrewStrong.xml)
• Frequencies: OSHB morphologically-tagged OT (words.parquet)
• Top 1000 roots ranked by combined root-family frequency