The study of Hebrew occurred already in some grammatical notes in the Talmud and Midrash. The Masoretes continued the study as they fixed the text and...
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Hebrew (Hebrew alphabet: עִבְרִית, ʿĪvrīt, pronounced [ʔivˈʁit] or [ʕivˈrit] ; Samaritan script: ࠏࠨࠁࠬࠓࠪࠉࠕ ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within...
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The Academy of the Hebrew Language (Hebrew: הָאָקָדֶמְיָה לַלָּשׁוֹן הָעִבְרִית, ha-akademyah la-lashon ha-ivrit) was established by the Israeli government...
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foreign to the Arabic language, e.g., the qamatz (Hebrew: קָמַץ) and tzere (Hebrew: צֵירִי). He argues that the pronunciation of Yemenite Hebrew was not...
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The revival of the Hebrew language took place in Europe and the Levant region toward the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century, through which...
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Israeli Hebrew or simply Hebrew, is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. Developed as part of the revival of Hebrew in the late 19th...
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Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area...
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Mishnaic Hebrew (Hebrew: לשון חז"ל, romanized: Ləšon Ḥazal "Language of the Sages") is the Hebrew language of Talmudic texts. Mishnaic Hebrew can be sub-divided...
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The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (/tɑːˈnɑːx/; Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ Tanaḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/miːˈkrɑː/; Hebrew: מִקְרָא Mīqrāʾ), is the canonical...
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studies (or Judaic studies; Hebrew: מדעי היהדות, romanized: madey ha-yahadut, lit. 'sciences of Judaism') is an academic discipline centered on the study...
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in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian. In modern Hebrew, vowels...
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either as a first language or proficiently as a second language. Its standard form, known as Modern Hebrew, is the main medium of life in Israel. Arabic...
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sometimes the Ugarites. The Canaanite languages continued to be everyday spoken languages until at least the 5th century AD. Hebrew is the only living...
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the Hebrews as synonymous with the Israelites, with the term "Hebrew" denoting an Israelite from the nomadic era, which preceded the establishment of...
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and Mishnaic Hebrew favored for Jewish liturgical use and Torah study by Ashkenazi Jewish practice. As it is used parallel with Modern Hebrew, its phonological...
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(ין 'wine') exhibiting a shift of /ay/ to ē (yēn < *yayn) much like Hebrew. It was first described as a separate language in 1970 by Italian Orientalist...
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continuously used the language in prayer and study, or both. The texts were mainly written in Biblical Hebrew (sometimes called Classical Hebrew), with some...
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Judaeo-Spanish (redirect from Judaeo-Spanish language)
Judeo-Spanish (autonym djudeoespanyol, Hebrew script: גﬞודﬞיאו־איספאנייול), also known as Ladino, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish. Originally...
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to Egyptian and Hebrew.[clarification needed] However, the Book of Mormon includes language that is anachronistic and reflective of its 19th-century...
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The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese and numerous other...
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Hebrew grammar is the grammar of the Hebrew language. The Masoretes in the 7th to 11th centuries laid the foundation for grammatical analysis of Hebrew...
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Strong's Concordance (redirect from Strong's Hebrew Dictionary)
in the Bible. Each original-language word (Hebrew or Greek) is given an entry number in the dictionary of those original language words listed in the back...
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Hebrew school is Jewish education focusing on topics of Jewish history, learning the Hebrew language, and finally learning one's Torah Portion, in preparation...
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Aramaic (redirect from History of the Aramaic language)
belongs to the Northwest group of the Semitic language family, which also includes the mutually intelligible Canaanite languages such as Hebrew, Edomite...
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The Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (also known as HUC, HUC-JIR, and The College-Institute) is a Jewish seminary with three locations...
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Jewish languages are the various languages and dialects that developed in Jewish communities in the diaspora. The original Jewish language is Hebrew, supplanted...
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Lists of Geographical Names". Lĕšonénu: A Journal for the Study of the Hebrew Language and Cognate Subjects. 4 (3): 1–92. JSTOR 24384308. (Hebrew) Israel...
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The grammar of Modern Hebrew shares similarities with that of its Biblical Hebrew counterpart, but it has evolved significantly over time. Modern Hebrew...
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Judaism in the home; and to encourage the establishment of Jewish religious schools whose instruction includes the study of the Hebrew language and its literature...
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Academy of the Hebrew Language, in the 1880s (the time of the beginning of the Zionist movement and the Hebrew revival) there were three groups of Hebrew regional...
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