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Hebrew is a "root" language with basic meanings of words derived from the consonents. This is different than English and other Indo-Eurpean languages where the vowels have equal weight as the consonents. Thus, in Hebrew, the consonents CTB(or V) have something to do with "writing". From this basic root, there is derived CoTeV=writing or author, CaTTav= reporter, CaTuV=written, C'TuVim=Scriptures, CaTaVti= I wrote, eC(kh)ToV=I will write, C'ToVet=inscription or address, and so on.
Hebrew is a "root" language with basic meanings of words derived from the consonents. This is different than English and other Indo-Eurpean languages where the vowels have equal weight as the consonents. Thus, in Hebrew, the consonents CTB(or V) have something to do with "writing". From this basic root, there is derived CoTeV=writing or author, CaTTav= reporter, CaTuV=written, C'TuVim=Scriptures, CaTaVti= I wrote, eC(kh)ToV=I will write, C'ToVet=inscription or address, and so on.
The Hebrew of the Old Testament, though "classical' is not uniform. Some of the Hebrew, as in the Song of Deborah, is very archaic. The narrative portions relating to Deborah, are more "modern". The same is true with the poetic Song of Moses and its corresponding narrative. This indicates that the poetic portions where written much earlier than the narrative and very close to the time of the event itself. This suggests how the events were passed on orally and in song to the next generation before they were written down. Deuteronomy displays a type of Hebrew similar to some of the Prophetic literature. What all this indicates is the "freedom" found in the Hebrew language of the Bible. In comparative terms to our modern sense and usage - it would be as if King James English with its magnificence cadences, Revised Standard English, more accessible and approachable to the modern man, and New International English, more familiar to the "man in the street", were to be used in one and the same version of the Bible to fit different "moods" and different usages and succeeding centuries. This evinces a most convincing and natural development of the language just as there is a most convincing and natural development of the culture and of the people of the Bible. Biblical Hebrew is thus shown to be very far different from an artificial or "school room" construct. It is a living language use for different purposes, and at different times, or, more properly, living languages.
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