Hebrew is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by...
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The Historical Dictionary Project of the Hebrew Language (HDP; Hebrew: מִפְעַל הַמִּלּוֹן הַהִיסְטוֹרִי) is a long-term research undertaking of the Academy...
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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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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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The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (/tɑːˈnɑːx/; Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ, romanized: tanaḵ; תָּנָ״ךְ, tānāḵ; or תְּנַ״ךְ, tənaḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/miːˈkrɑː/;...
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Notable dictionaries of the Hebrew language include: The first Hebrew dictionary that we know of is Mahberet Menahem by Menahem ben Saruq. It was written...
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Hebrew or simply Hebrew, is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. It is the only surviving Canaanite language, as well as one of the...
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A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic...
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first native Hebrew speaker since Hebrew's extinction as an everyday language. Hebrew is now the primary official language of Israel, and the most commonly...
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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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list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included number of words in a language. In...
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HDP (category Articles containing Turkish-language text)
Heritage Documentation Programs of the United States National Park Service Historical Dictionary Project of the Hebrew Language Hortonworks, an American software...
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Judaeo-Spanish (redirect from Judaeo-Spanish language)
(autonym Djudeo-Espanyol, Hebrew script: גֿודֿיאו-איספאנייול), also known as Ladino or Judezmo or Spaniolit, is a Romance language derived from Castilian...
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Aramaic (redirect from History of the Aramaic language)
of the Hebrew Bible, including parts of the books of Daniel and Ezra. Aramaic translation of the Bible is known as the Targum. It was the language of...
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Semitic languages like Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic have the prepositions bi/bə and li/lə (locative and dative, respectively). The origin of the Akkadian...
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Blend word (redirect from List of hybrid word puns used in pop culture)
Dictionary of the Hebrew Language. Jerusalem: Carta. See p. 97. Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003). Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew...
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Zion (redirect from Daughter of Zion)
A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for readers of English, Carta Jerusalem, University of Haifa, 1987, pp. xii–xiii Joseph...
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The African Hebrew Israelites in Israel comprise a new religious movement that is now mainly based in Dimona. Officially self-identifying as the African...
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Judeo-Provençal (redirect from Shuadit language)
Judæo-Comtadin, are the names given to the varieties of Occitan or Provençal languages historically spoken and/or written by Jews in the South of France, and...
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The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Modern South Arabian...
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This article contains persons named in the Bible, specifically in the Hebrew Bible, of minor notability, about whom little or nothing is known, aside...
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Canaanism (redirect from Council for the Coalition of Hebrew Youth)
whom the Hebrew language is a language in actuality and practicality, a mother tongue, a language of culture and of the soul; the one and only language for...
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Semitic root (redirect from Hebrew root)
The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root)...
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over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during...
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Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (category Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language. Tur-Sinai was the first president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and founder of its Historical Dictionary...
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Prothesis (linguistics) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
aleph) or, in Hebrew, /h/, which may be pronounced or simply written. Because of the triconsonantal root morphology of Semitic languages, the prothetic vowel...
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Hebrew cantillation, trope, trop, or te'amim is the manner of chanting ritual readings from the Hebrew Bible in synagogue services. The chants are written...
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was a unique set of historical and cultural characteristics that facilitated the revival. (See Revival of the Hebrew language.) Hebrew, once largely a...
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Semitic languages, particularly Arabic (which is spoken in Egypt today) and Hebrew. However, other scholars have argued that the Egyptian language shared...
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The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance...
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