Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

There is no "modern" Hebrew. We still speak the same biblical Hebrew,  
only slightly adapted for everyday use.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Oct 30, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

>   Hard to understand  why you keep referring to what
>  you  hear or do not hear in the modern language.
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>   The subject of this list is biblical Hebrew,
>  not the modern language.
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>    Uri Hurwitz                       Great Neck, NY
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> I have never heard it being "lengthened" in Hebrew.
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> Isaac Fried, Boston University
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> On Oct 30, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Randall Buth wrote:
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> > When compared to other Semitic languages it is called a D-stem,
> > meaning that the second root
> > letter is lengthened, popularly called 'doubled'.
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