This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is well known that Semitic languages restrict the co-occurrence of identical and homorganic consonants in the root. The IDENTITY HYPOTHESIS ...

The supposed meaning of the word "divoc," which is COVID backwards, has spread online. The Claim It has been suggested that "divoc" is a Hebrew word that means "possession by an evil spirit." One post ...

Did you know that the ancient scrolls of the Torah don’t contain any vowels? Unlike English, where vowels are explicitly represented as letters (A, E, I, O, U) and are fundamental to every word, ...

Don’t blame me if this week’s column is a bit technical. It’s by popular demand. No fewer than five readers have written to question the statement in my column of November 10 that “classical Hebrew ...

In many languages, the words for father and mother — being the first words a baby utters — are quite similar, and they include the labial consonants b, p, m; or dental d, t, n; as papa, dad, (Czech) ...

Reader Alan Margolis wants to know whether the English name John comes from the biblical name Yohanan — which, he writes, “sounds like Hebrew for ‘God has had mercy.’” Margolis is right on both counts ...