Yarden Gedalia

Linguistically speaking, biblical Hebrew has many different unique facets hidden throughout its alphabet, and language. Hebrew is the child of the Canaanite language, which is a subgroup of the Northwestern Semitic group, that has been divided into three time spans of biblical, medieval, and modern Hebrew (Augustyn, 2018). Since Biblical Hebrew is an old language, many other languages have been influenced by Biblical Hebrew, whether in their alphabets, characters, transliteration, translation, names or words. Social and cultural anthropology helps define the evolution of Hebrew names by examining their influence on the Jewish and Christian religions, the social construct of Jewish immigrants, the ‘b/v,’ ‘ch/kh/h/k’, ‘yod’ (y, j, i), ‘sh/s,’ ‘th/ph,’ and ‘tz’ sounds. Hebrew names and their implications in worldly languages will be explored by the question; To what extent did Biblical Hebrew names have an influence on European and English used names? This topic will explore the areas of effects on religion, socio-cultural context, transliteration and translation. These elements will help bind the argument that indeed, Biblical Hebrew had an influence on the evolution of English, and other European names.