SHEMITIC LANGUAGES

Meaning of SHEMITIC LANGUAGES in English

the family of languages spoken by the descendants of Shem, chiefly the Hebrew, Chaldaic, Assyrian, Arabic Phoenician and Aramaic or Syriac. The Jews in their earlier history spoke the Hebrew, but in Christ's time they spoke the Aramaic, sometimes called the Syro-Chaldaic.

Smith's Bible English dictionary. Английский библейский словарь Смита. 2012

SHEMITIC — adjective see: Shemite
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SHEMITIC — shə̇ˈmid.ik, sheˈm- adjective Usage: usually capitalized : semitic
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SHEMITIC — (a.) Alt. of Shemitish
Английский словарь Webster
SHEMITIC — ( a. ) Alt. of Shemitish
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SHEMITIC — see Shemite
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SHEMITIC — adj ·alt. of shemitish.
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LANGUAGES — Языки languages: proficiency in ~ знание языков languages: proficiency in ~ знание языков
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LANGUAGES — Языки
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LANGUAGES — Языка
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LANGUAGES — Речи
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LANGUAGES — - conditional languages
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LANGUAGES — Языки languages: proficiency in ~ знание языков languages: proficiency in ~ знание языков
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LANGUAGES, CLASSIFICATION OF — placement of languages into families or phyla on the basis of lexical or typological similarity or shared ancestry. Languages may …
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URALIC LANGUAGES — family of more than 20 related languages, all descended from a Proto-Uralic language that existed 7,000 to 10,000 years ago. …
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TAI LANGUAGES — closely related family of languages, of which the Thai (Siamese) language of Thailand is the most important member. Because the …
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SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES — group of languages that once covered and today still partially cover all of South America, the Antilles, and Central America …
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SLAVIC LANGUAGES — Distribution of the Slavic languages in Europe. also called Slavonic languages group of Indo-European languages spoken in most of eastern …
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ROMANCE LANGUAGES — Figure 2: Distribution of Romance languages in Europe. group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times …
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NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES — those languages that are indigenous to the United States and subarctic Canada and that are spoken north of the Mexican …
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NIGER-CONGO LANGUAGES — Distribution of the Niger-Congo languages. a family of languages of Africa, which in terms of the number of languages spoken, …
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KHOISAN LANGUAGES
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ITALIC LANGUAGES — Figure 1: Supposed language areas of the Italic and neighbouring languages about 250 BC. certain Indo-European languages that were once …
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IRANIAN LANGUAGES — subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. The subgroup's languages are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and …
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INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES — also called Indic languages subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, …
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GERMANIC LANGUAGES
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DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGES — family of 23 languages spoken in South Asia. The major languages are Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gondi, Kurukh, and Tulu. …
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CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES — Distribution of the Caucasian languages also called Paleo-Caucasian, or Ibero-Caucasian, group of languages indigenous to Transcaucasia and adjacent areas of …
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AUSTROASIATIC LANGUAGES — Distribution of the Austroasiatic languages. also spelled Austro-Asiatic, stock of some 150 languages spoken by more than 65 million people …
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AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES — group of approximately 260 interrelated languages whose speakers once occupied the entire Australian continent as well as the western islands …
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ANATOLIAN LANGUAGES — extinct Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages spoken in Anatolia from sometime in the 3rd millenium BC until the early centuries of …
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AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES — languages spoken by the original inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere and their modern descendants. The American Indian languages do not …
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AFRO-ASIATIC LANGUAGES — also called Afrasian languages, formerly called Hamito-Semitic, Semito-Hamitic, or Erythraean languages, family of genetically related languages that developed from a …
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SHEMITE — noun Etymology: Shem Date: 1659 Semite , Shemitic or Shemitish adjective, archaic
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LANGUAGE — I System of conventional spoken or written symbols used by people in a shared culture to communicate with each other. …
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SHEMITE — — Shemitic /sheuh mit"ik/ , Shemitish /shem"uy tish/ , adj. /shem"uyt/ , n. a Semite.
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LINGUISTICS — the scientific study of language. The word was first used in the middle of the 19th century to emphasize the …
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LANGUAGE — a system of conventional spoken or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group …
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LANGUAGE AND CULTURE — Language and culture It has been seen that language is much more than the external expression and communication of internal …
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LANGUAGE — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a computer language (= a system of instructions used to program a computer ) a …
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LANGUAGE — n. Common Business Oriented Language. HyperText Markup Language Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. Standard Generalized Markup Language Structured Query Language. …
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WRITING — There is no account in the Bible of the origin of writing. That the Egyptians in the time of Joseph …
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WEEK — There can be no doubt about the great antiquity of measuring time by a period of seven days. (Genesis 8:10; …
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TEMPLE — There is perhaps no building of the ancient world which has excited so much attention since the time of its …
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SHEM — (name), the eldest son of Noah. (Genesis 5:32) He was 98 years old, married, and childless at the time of …
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SEMITIC LANGUAGES — See: Shemitic Languages LANGUAGES; Hebrew Language
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POETRY, HEBREW — â Lyrical poetry .-Of the three kinds of poetry which are illustrated by the Hebrew literature, the lyric occupies the …
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NO-AMON — (temple of Amon) (Nahum 3:8) No, (Jeremiah 46:25; Ezekiel 30:14,16) a city of Egypt, better known under the name of …
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NINEVEH — (abode of Ninus), the capital of the ancient kingdom and empire of Assyria. The name appears to be compounded from …
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HEBREW LANGUAGE — The books of the Old Testament are written almost entirely in the Hebrew language. It is a branch of the …
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CHALDEANS, OR CHALDEES — It appears that the Chaldeans (Kaldai or Kaldi) were in the earliest times merely one out of many Cushite tribes …
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BIBLE — The Bible is the name given to the revelation of God to man contained in sixty-six books or pamphlets, bound …
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BABYLONIANS — the inhabitants of Babylon, a race of Shemitic origin, who were among the colonists planted in the cities of Samaria …
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ASSYRIA, ASSHUR — was a great and powerful country lying on the Tigris, (Genesis 2:14) the capital of which was Nineveh. (Genesis 10:11) …
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ARABIA — (desert, barren), a country known in the Old Testament under two designations:- â The East Country, (Genesis 25:6) or perhaps …
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