Developed from Biblical Hebrew in the 1st century CE; continued as Medieval Hebrew as an academic language after dying out as a spoken native language in the 4th century
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrew
Mishnaic Hebrew
Early form
Biblical Hebrew
Writing system
Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Mishnaic Hebrew (לשון חז"ל "Language of the Sages") is the Hebrew language of Talmudic texts. Mishnaic Hebrew can be sub-divided into Mishnaic Hebrew proper (also called Tannaitic Hebrew, Early Rabbinic Hebrew, or Mishnaic Hebrew I), which was a spoken language, and Amoraic Hebrew (also called Late Rabbinic Hebrew or Mishnaic Hebrew II), which was a literary language only.
The Mishnaic Hebrew language, or Early Rabbinic Hebrew language, is one of the direct ancient descendants of Biblical Hebrew as preserved after the Babylonian captivity, and definitively recorded by Jewish sages in writing the Mishnah and other contemporary documents.
A transitional form of the language occurs in the other works of Tannaitic literature dating from the century beginning with the completion of the Mishnah. These include the halakhic midrashim (Sifra, Sifre, Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael etc.) and the expanded collection of Mishnah-related material known as the Tosefta. The Talmud contains excerpts from these works, as well as further Tannaitic material not attested elsewhere; the generic term for these passages is baraitot. The language of all these works is very similar to Mishnaic Hebrew.
Hebrew, Early Rabbinic Hebrew, or MishnaicHebrew I), which was a spoken language, and Amoraic Hebrew (also called Late Rabbinic Hebrew or Mishnaic Hebrew...
i.e. Judaean), but the name was used in Ancient Greek and MishnaicHebrew texts. The Hebrew language is attested in inscriptions from about the 10th century BCE...
Hebrew Bible MishnaicHebrew, the language of the Mishnah and Talmud Medieval Hebrew, from about the 6th to the 13th century CE Modern Hebrew, the language...
Biblical and MishnaicHebrew favored for Jewish liturgical use and Torah study by Ashkenazi Jewish practice. As it is used parallel with Modern Hebrew, its phonological...
of Hebrew from the 10th century BCE to the late Second Temple period (lasting to 70 CE), after which the language developed into MishnaicHebrew. From...
Biblical Hebrew (including the use of Tiberian vocalization) MishnaicHebrew, a form of the Hebrew language that is found in the Talmud Ancient Hebrew writings...
the Tannaim of Israel and Babylonia wrote is referred to as MishnaicHebrew (MH), or in Hebrew Lešon hakhamim, meaning the language of the Sages. Texts were...
BCE – 70 CE) would be forgotten. Most of the Mishnah is written in MishnaicHebrew, but some parts are in Palestinian Western Aramaic. The term "Mishnah"...
important influence was Maimonides, who developed a simple style based on MishnaicHebrew for use in his law code, the Mishneh Torah. Subsequent rabbinic literature...
Afikoman (MishnaicHebrew: אֲפִיקִימוֹן ʾăpîqîmôn; Modern pronunciation: אֲפִיקוֹמָן ʾăpîqômān) based on Greek epikomon [ἐπὶ κῶμον] or epikomion [ἐπικώμιον]...
spoken vernacular of Jews in Judaea was a late form of Hebrew known as Rabbinic or MishnaicHebrew, whereas during the period of the Amoraim (rabbis cited...
According to the Talmud, Amathlai (MishnaicHebrew: אֲמַתְלַאי ʾĂmaṯlaʾy) was the name of the mother of Abraham. According to this tradition, she was...
contains Hebrew text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. The Hebrew alphabet...
Vilna Shas, there are 2,711 double-sided folios. It is written in MishnaicHebrew and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and contains the teachings and opinions...
Metatron (MishnaicHebrew: מֶטָטְרוֹן Meṭāṭrōn), or Matatron (מַטַּטְרוֹן, Maṭṭaṭrōn), is an angel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam mentioned three...
conclusion that the Mishnaic calendar was actually used in the Mishnaic period. The accuracy of the Mishnah's claim that the Mishnaic calendar was also...
the Book of Esther is קִיבֵּל, MishnaicHebrew differs in Yemenite tradition. Shelomo Morag, The Traditions of Hebrew and Aramaic of the Jews of Yemen...
resemblance to it, or that both birds are unclean animals. The original MishnaicHebrew proverb is "לא לחינם הלך זרזיר אצל עורב, אלא מפני שהוא מינו" (Not for...
Israeli Hebrew (SIH) phonology, based on the Sephardic Hebrew pronunciation tradition, has a number of differences from Biblical Hebrew (BH) and Mishnaic Hebrew...
several linguistic phenomena common to SH on the one hand, and MishnaicHebrew (MH) and the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls (HDSS), on the other. He proved that...
of these identifications are disputed. The five species, with their MishnaicHebrew names, are as follows: Hitah (חִיטָּה ḥīṭṭā) – wheat Kusmin (כּוּסְמִין...
Israel to the north. The relative pronoun in SBH is asher (אשר), and in MishnaicHebrew (MH) is sh– (–ש). LBH appears to represent a transition stage: the...
Ashkenazi Jews, liturgical MishnaicHebrew – Jews, liturgical, rabbinical, any of the Hebrew dialects found in the Talmud. Medieval Hebrew – Jews, liturgical...
has been suggested that the Aramaic word māmōn was a loanword from MishnaicHebrew ממון (mamôn) meaning money, wealth, or possessions; although it may...
/məˈχiltɑ/, "a collection of rules of interpretation"; corresponding to the MishnaicHebrew מדה middah 'measure', 'rule'), is used to denote a compilation of exegesis...
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