This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. Biblical or Classical Hebrew is the ancient form of the Hebrew language, in which the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) was written, and which the ancient Israelites spoke. It is not spoken in its pure form today, although it is studied by religious Jews (and also by Christian theologians and academics) for practical application and ...

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As Biblical Hebrew (BH) evolved from Proto-Semitic (PS) it underwent a number of mergers[1],[2]: PS */ð/ and */z/ merged as BH /z/ PS */θ/ and */š/ merged as BH /š/ PS */θ̣/, */ɬ̣/, and See also:

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The phonology as reconstructed for Biblical Hebrew is as follows (from Lambdin, with modifications): Biblical Hebrew had a vowel system based on the cardinal vowels /i u e o a/, which occurred in short, long, and extra-long forms. I follow Lambdin's use of macrons to mark long vowels and circumflexes to mark extra-long ones. Aside from these vowels, there were also four "reduced" ones, ə, ă, ĕ, and ŏ ( ...

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