Hebrew+language

  • 71Language Spoken at Home (U.S. Census) — Language Spoken at Home is a data set published by the United States Census Bureau on languages in the United States. In 2000 and 1990 it was a part of Summary File 3, collected from the long form questionnaire which was distributed to 1 out of 6 …

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  • 72Language names — of world languages in their own language.* Albanian Shqipe * Arabic al Arabiya * Azerbaijani Azərbaycan * Basque Euskara * Belarusian Беларуская * Bosnian Bosanski * Bulgarian Български * Chinese Zhong Wen (Jong wen middle language China is Zhong …

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  • 73Hebrew — He brew, n. [F. H[ e]breu, L. Hebraeus, Gr. ?, fr. Heb. ibhr[=i].] 1. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. [1913 Webster] There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew …

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  • 74Hebrew-Aramaic — [hē′bro͞oar΄ə mā′ik, hē′bro͞oer΄ə mā′ik] n. 〚coined ( c. 1954) by Max Weinreich (1894 1969), U.S. linguist, to render Yiddish loshn koydesh & Heb leshon hakodesh, lit., the language of holiness〛 a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic * * * …

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  • 75Hebrew — ► NOUN 1) a member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel and Palestine, who established the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. 2) the Semitic language of the Hebrews, in its ancient or modern form. 3) old fashioned and sometimes offensive… …

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  • 76Hebrew-Aramaic — [hē′bro͞oar΄ə mā′ik, hē′bro͞oer΄ə mā′ik] n. [coined ( c. 1954) by Max Weinreich (1894 1969), U.S. linguist, to render Yiddish loshn koydesh & Heb leshon hakodesh, lit., the language of holiness] a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic …

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  • 77Romanization of Hebrew — Hebrew uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel points. The romanization of Hebrew is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Hebrew words.For example, the Hebrew name spelled ישראל ( Israel ) in the Hebrew alphabet can be romanized as …

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  • 78Yiddish language — Language of Ashkenazic Jews and their descendants (see Ashkenazi), written in the Hebrew alphabet. Yiddish developed from southeastern dialects of Middle High German carried into central and eastern Europe beginning in the 12th century; it has… …

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  • 79Language of the New Testament — The mainstream consensus is that the New Testament was written in a form of Koine Greek,[1][2] which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean[3][4][5][6] from the Conquests of Alexander th …

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  • 80HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM — The first university established in Israel. The establishment of an institute of higher learning in Ereẓ Israel was first proposed by hermann schapira in 1884 at the Kattowitz Conference of the Ḥovevei Zion, and again at the first Zionist… …

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