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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Hebrew language as used from the second to the tenth century AD.
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- proper noun The
Hebrew language as used from the second to the tenth century in theCommon Era , descended fromBiblical Hebrew .
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The language of _Abot_ is easy Mishnaic Hebrew, with portions of four verses (I, 13; II, 7; V, 25, and V, 26) in Aramaic, which is closely related to Hebrew.
Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers Joseph I. Gorfinkle
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