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Hebrew, a West Semitic language, is the ancient and modern language of the Jewish people.

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Linguistic or etymological relationship between the words "Sabbath" and "seven"

The words for "Sabbath" and "seven" seem similar in both Hebrew and Aramaic. Is there an etymological relationship between them? Sabbath (Shabbat), שַׁבָּת, is Strong's H7676. …
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How a portmanteau of God's name would be formed [closed]

I knew that the vav is used in Hebrew as a conjunction (translated "and"); it thus seemed logical grammatically, that the name is an acronym: Yihiyeh --He will be Hoveh --He is V --and Haya - … The idea is that Hebrew has a nonconcatenative morphology, where the vowel patterns dictate the tense. So the mushing would be taking some vowels from each. …
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What is the etymology of the Hebrew word יָלַד

What is the etymology of the Hebrew word יָלַד, transliterated, yalad. The Hebrew Lexicon offers no etymology. …