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- a member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel and Palestine and, according to biblical tradition, descended from the patriarch Jacob, grandson of Abraham. After the Exodus (c.1300 BC) they established the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and their scriptures and traditions form the basis of the Jewish religion.希伯来人（居住在现以色列和巴勒斯坦的古代民族, 据《圣经》中所说, 希伯来人系亚伯拉罕的孙子雅各的后裔, 在出埃及［约公元前1300年］后, 希伯来人建了以色列王国和犹大王国, 其经文和传统构成了犹太教的基础）。
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- mass noun the Semitic language of this people, in its ancient or modern form希伯来闪族语。
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- of or in Hebrew希伯来语的; 用希伯来语书写的。
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- of the Hebrews or the Jews希伯来人的, 犹太人的。
Hebrew is written from right to left in a characteristic alphabet of twenty-two consonants, the vowels sometimes being marked by additional signs. From about AD 500 it was almost entirely restricted to Jewish religious use, but it was revived as a spoken language in the 19th century and, with a vocabulary extended by borrowing from contemporary languages, is now the official language of the state of Israel.
词源
from Old French Ebreu, via Latin from late Greek Hebraios, from Aramaic ' iḇray, based on Hebrew 'iḇrî understood to mean 'one from the other side (of the river)'.