Hebrew

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11th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Targum.

Hebrew Papyrus - containing the Ten Commandments and the Shema Yisrael prayer. Originally dated to the 2nd century, but subsequent reappraisals have pushed the date back to the 2nd century BC.

Hebrew is the name given to the language and/or persons claiming descent from Jacob. The language is one of the Semitic Afro-Asiatic language family, which also includes Arabic, Aramaic, Maltese, Syriac, and Amharic. While historically spoken as the language of the Torah and Jewish prayer books, the Hebrew language has been revived in modern times as the official language of the Jews or Israel. It is the only language that is common to all Jews, and the only one that can be properly called the "Jewish" language.

It is the classic language of the ancient Canaanites used by most of the writers of the Old Testament (except for part of Daniel and Ezra). The Jews have always called it the לשון הקודש Lashon ha-Kodesh ("The Sacred Language") as the scriptures written in this language were considered sacred.

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1 Biblical Hebrew language
2 Language tutorial
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Biblical Hebrew language

Biblical Hebrew, sometimes called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, in which the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh was written, and which the ancient Israelites spoke.

Language tutorial

There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet - all consonants - and it is written and read from right to left. Hebrew words have a masculine form and a feminine form.

Hebrew pronunciations: