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Early Hebrew

adjective

  1. noting or pertaining to the alphabetic script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Early Hebrew1

First recorded in 1820–30

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Example Sentences

There are no vowels; indeed, there were no vowels in the early Hebrew at all.

The editing of Ezra has burnished up the early Hebrew a little, but it is plain that he had not emerged from the stone age.

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