To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:33:57 -0500
On 11/24/10 12:11 PM, Christopher Kimball wrote:
>
> Is Greek usually considered a cognate language of Hebrew?
No. Greek is Indo-European. Hebrew is a member of the Semitic family.
Naturally,
there is some influence of one on the other because of people speaking both
languages and the LXX, etc.
Blessings,
Kirk
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Kirk E. Lowery, PhD
President & Senior Research Fellow
The J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research
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