Every Israeli can suggest new words to the academy, and the academy’s board meets periodically to discuss the propositions and accept or reject them. Academy members, naturally, also propose words.

English and European words such as alphabet, earth, loco and habitat could come from Hebrew, according to an independent Israeli linguistics researcher who has written a number of unpublished ...

It was my senior year of college, and I had room for one elective. As a dedicated Bible Christian, I had a strong desire to learn the original languages of the Scriptures, and I jumped at the chance ...

The word "hostages" was voted as the word of the year by thousands among the Israeli public, the Academy of the Hebrew Language announced on Tuesday, the day marking Hebrew Language Day. According to ...

It is amazing how a word that signifies “holy of holies of the temple or tabernacle” is actually a loan word from a “pagan” language: the Sumerian word akkadian, which became e-kal or “big house, ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

The religious language that lay dormant for millennia is now global, used by millions of people around the world—including in China. The Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, is ...

On President Barack Obama’s first presidential trip to Israel, he’s taken care to litter his remarks and speeches with Hebrew words, phrases and even complete sentences. At a State Dinner at the home ...