Biblical Hebrew vs Modern Hebrew
Background & History: Around 9 million people worldwide are speaking Hebrew, and modern Hebrew is the official language - שָׂפָה רִשְׁמִית (safa rishmit) in Israel. Hebrew flourished as an everyday spoken language in the Kingdoms of Israel – cnaan – כְּנָעַן (cnaan) during about 1200 to 586 BCE.
At a certain time in the late 2nd century CE or a little later, most Jews ceased to use Hebrew as a spoken language, but it continued to be used as a literary language, and was the ma