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- Modern scholarship considers that the Israelites emerged from groups of indigenous Canaanites and other peoples. They spoke an archaic form of the Hebrew language, which was a regional variety of the Canaanite languages, known today as Biblical Hebrew.
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Oct 23, 2024 · Spoken in ancient times in Palestine, Hebrew was supplanted by the western dialect of Aramaic beginning about the 3rd century BCE. It was revived as a spoken language in the 19th and 20th centuries and is the official language of Israel.
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In Exodus 2:6 Moses is identified as one of the "Hebrews" (Eevriym in Hebrew) and throughout the Hebrew Bible the children of Israel are often identified as "Hebrews." A "Hebrew" is anyone who is descended from "Eber" ( Ever in Hebrew), an ancestor of Abraham and Moses (See Genesis 10:24).
Mar 31, 2023 · Answer. The children of Israel in the Bible are simply the descendants of Jacob. The term children of Israel emphasizes the lineage of the Hebrew people as being through the patriarch Jacob. The children of Israel are also called Israelites.
Brenton Septuagint Translation. and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak in the Jewish language. Contemporary English Version. About half of their children could not speak Hebrew--they spoke only the language of Ashdod or some other foreign language.
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. iz'-ra-el (bene yisra'el): A very common term in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, and it refers to the Israelites as the descendants of a common ancestor, Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel (see Genesis 32:24-32).
The Israelite tribes that settled in Canaan from the 14th to 13th centuries B.C.E.–regardless of what their language might have been before they established themselves there–used Hebrew as a spoken and a literary language until the fall of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E.
Some understand the writer to mean that half of the children in a family spoke the tongue of the father, and half that of the mother. But many of the best Hebraists prefer the sense expressed by our translators, viz., that all the children spoke a jargon half Ashdodite and half Aramaic.
