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Biblical Hebrew (Classical Hebrew) is an archaic form of the [[Hebrew]] language, in which the [[Old Testament]] 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 Christian theologians, linguists and Israeli archaeologists. Biblical Hebrew is easily read by anyone familiar with modern Hebrew. The differences between Biblical Hebrew and modern Hebrew are mainly in grammar and Biblical Hebrew's distinct writing style.
From a linguistic point of view, the Classical Hebrew language is usually divided into two periods and two registers: Biblical Hebrew of the First Temple Period is distinguished from biblical , and literary Roman Era Hebrew of the Second Temple Period, and Second Temple Period Hebrew itself is divided into literary Hebrew and colloquial Hebrew like that of the Mishna and in some documents from the Dead Sea areahaving very distinct grammatical patterns.
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|{{hebrew|ח}}
|kh
|χ|This is a sound that English doesn't have. It is a voiceless pharyngeal fricative. It is NOT sounds like the ch in the German name Bach or in the Scottish word loch, but Europeans often use that . It is the throat clearing guttural sound as a substitute.
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|Tet
|{{hebrew|ט}}
|t
|t|It was a Sounds like t pronounced with retracted tongue-rootas in tetris.
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|Yod
|kh
|x
|Sounds just like German 'chHet, except that it isn' in Bach, Scottish Loch. It is velar, not pharyngealt guttural.
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|Khaf Final
|{{hebrew|ע}}
| -
|ʔ|It is a voiced version of {{hebrew|ח}}. A voiced pharyngeal fricative. It is not a glottal stop.
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|Pe
|tz
|ʦ
|Sounds like the zz in pizza. In antiquity it was 's' pronounced with retracted tongue-root.
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|Tsadi final
|{{hebrew|ק}}
|k
|k|Sounds like Kaf in modern Hebrew, but was originally pronounced with retracted tongue rootpressure in the throat ([q]).|-
|Resh
|{{hebrew|ר}}
|r
|ɾ
|Sounds like the letter R, but is not pronounced exactly the same as in English. At the beginning or in the middle of a word it is slightly rolled so that its sound is somewhere between the English "R" and the Spanish rolled "R". The tongue bounces off the roof of the mouth just once. (The Ashkenazi and Israeli pronunciation is [ʁ]. A uvular trill.)
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|Shin
