Dominant Quote by Sami Michael

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

— Etgar Keret

What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical,…

— Etgar Keret

“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

Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

— Yair Lapid

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

— Zubin Mehta

All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to…

— Hassan Blasim

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

— David Ben-Gurion

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

— Amos Oz

“In Hebrew and Aramaic the vowels have undergone vast modifications, whilst in Arabic they have retained to a large extent their primitive purity and…

— James John Courtenay

“Ancient Arabic may naturally be regarded as the chief source of the Hebrew language.”

— John Courtenay James

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

— 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