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Encyclopedia Britannica



HEBREW LANGUAGE

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 168 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HEBREW LANGUAGE . The name " Hebrew " is derived, through the
Greek
  'E(3paios, from 'ibhray, the Aramaic equivalent of the Old Testament word 'ibhri, denoting the
people
  who commonly spoke of themselves as
Israel
  or Children of
Israel
  from the name of their common ancestor (see
JEws
 ). The later derivative Yisra'eli, Israelite, from Yisra'el, is not found. in the Old Testament.2 Other names used for the language of Israel are speech of
Canaan
  (Isa. xix. 18) and Yehudhith, Jewish, (2
Kings
  xviii. 26). In later times it was called the holy
tongue
 . The real meaning of the word 'ibhri must ultimately be sought in the root 'abhar, to pass across, to go beyond, from which is derived the noun 'ebher, meaning the " farther
bank
  " of a river. The usual explanation of the
term
  is that of Jewish tradition
I There were several
journals
  of this name, the best known of the others being that edited by Lemaire.
In 2 Sam. xvii. 25 Israelite should be Ishwnaelite, as in the parallel passage 1 Chron. ii. 17,
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