Language/Ancient-hebrew
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Facts about Ancient Hebrew[edit | edit source]
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
hbo - Other names for "Ancient Hebrew":
Old Hebrew - The Ancient Hebrew language is spoken in:
Israel
Ancient Hebrew (ISO 639-3 code hbo) is a blanket term for pre-modern varieties of the Hebrew language:
- Paleo-Hebrew (such as the Siloam inscription), a variant of the Phoenician alphabet
- Biblical Hebrew (including the use of Tiberian vocalization)
- Mishnaic Hebrew, a form of the Hebrew language that is found in the Talmud
Ancient Hebrew Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
• Student's vocabulary for biblical Hebrew and Aramaic by Larry Mitchel (1984)
• Building Biblical Hebrew vocabulary, learning words by frequency and cognate, by George Landes (2001)
• Dictionary of the Targumim, The Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, by Marcus Jastrow (1926)
• Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament by Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver, Charles Briggs, after the works of Wilhelm Gesenius (1906)
• Hebrew-English pocket-dictionary to the Old Testament by Karl Feyerabend
• English-Hebrew lexicon, being a complete verbal index to Gesenius' Hebrew lexicon, by Edward Robinson & Joseph Lewis Potter (1877)
• English and Hebrew lexicon by Selig Newman (1832)
• Hebräisches und aramäisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament: Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary of the Old Testament, in German, by Eduard König (1910)
• Hebrew vocabularies, lists of the most frequently occurring Hebrew words, by William Harper (1898)
• A concise dictionary of Hebrew philosophical terms by Abraham Heschel (1941)
• American Heritage dictionary: Semitic roots
• Shoroshim: English thesaurus of Hebrew verb roots, compiled by Reuven Brauner (2014) [[new.htm|[[File:../images/newlink.gif|class=img-0|what's new?]]]]
• The significance of etymology for the interpretation of ancient writings, from the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament, by Alexander Militarev