STRONGS G1446:
Ἑβραΐς [WH
Ἐβρ., see their Introductory § 408],
-ίδος,
ἡ,
Hebrew, the Hebrew language; not that however in which the
O. T. was written, but the Chaldee (not Syro-Chaldaic, as it is commonly but incorrectly called; cf.
A. Th. Hoffmann, Grammat. Syriac., p. 14), which at the time of Jesus and the apostles had long superseded it in Palestine:
Acts 21:40;
Acts 22:2;
Acts 26:14;
Ἑβραΐς φωνή,
4 Macc. 12:7; 16:15. [Cf.
B. D., under the phrase, Shemitic Languages etc.; ibid. American edition, under the phrase, Language of the New Testament, Kautzsch p. 17f.;
Neubauer in Studia Biblica (Oxford, 1885) pp. 39-74.]
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