Hebrew

One of the Semitic languages, with literature of the most ancient date, and spoken by the Israeli tes to 400 B.C., when it was replaced by the Chaldee or Aramaic, the dialect of Syria. As a literary language, it has been kept in constant use to the present day. The Samaritan stood between the Hebrew and the Aramaic, with elements of both. Characteristic of Hebrew are the lack of compound nouns and verbs, and the so-called timele verb.