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Member of the Hamito-Semitic language family
spoken in W Asia by the ancient Hebrews,
sustained for many centuries in the Diaspora
as the liturgical language of Judaism, and
revived and developed in the 20th century as
Israeli Hebrew, the national language of the
state of Israel. It is the original language
of the Old Testament of the Bible. Such
English words as cherub, Jehovah/Yahweh,
kosher, rabbi, sabbath, seraph, and
shibboleth are borrowings from Hebrew. The
Hebrew alphabet is written from right to
left.