Hebrew Quote by Henry David Thoreau

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of to-day.

— Henry David Thoreau

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

— Etgar Keret

I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it,…

— Anita Brookner

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew.…

— Noam Chomsky

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of…

— Cynthia Ozick

“Biblical Hebrew is not a language in the full sense of the word but merely a 'fragment of language'.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“In any Semitic study, Arabic is a most useful adjunct, inasmuch as it often indicates the true significance of words where the Hebrew, Syriac…

— James John Courtenay

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

— Zubin Mehta

“Archaic Hebrew ... no general agreement among scholars regarding this term.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

— David Ben-Gurion

“Hebrew ... linguistic development was far from uniform. Even though they share a number of common tendencies, a variety of Hebrew traditions is seen…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know in most languages.”

— Robert Lane Greene