Lexicon Hebrais: Hebrew, the Aramaic vernacular of Pal. Original Word: Ἑβραΐς, ΐδος, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Hebrais Phonetic Spelling: (heb-rah-is') Short Definition: the Hebrew language, Aramaic Definition: the Hebrew language, or rather: Aramaic. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom EberDefinitionHebrew, the Aramaic vernacular of Pal. NASB TranslationHebrew (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1446: ἙβραΐςἙβραΐς ( WH Αβραΐς, see their Introductory § 408), ἑβραιδος, ἡ, Hebrew, the Hebrew language; not that however in which the O. T. was written, but the Chaldee (not Syro-Chaldaic, as it is commonly but incorrectly called; cf. A. Th. Hoffmann, Grammat. Syriac., p. 14), which at the time of Jesus and the apostles had long superseded it in Palestine: Acts 21:40; Acts 22:2; Acts 26:14; Ἑβραΐς φωνή, 4 Macc. 12:7; 16:15. (Cf. B. D., under the phrase, Shemitic Languages etc.; ibid. American edition, under the phrase, Language of the New Testament.)
Strong's Hebrew. From Eber; the Hebraistic (Hebrew) or Jewish (Chaldee) language -- Hebrew. see GREEK Eber |
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