לשון המקרא

Hebrew

Etymology

From לְשׁוֹן (leshón, “language of”) +‎ הַמִּקְרָא (hamikrá, “the scripture, i.e. the Hebrew Bible”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

לְשׁוֹן הַמִּקְרָא • (leshón hamikrá) f

  1. Biblical Hebrew, the archaic form of the Hebrew language spoken by the Israelites during the first millennium BCE, best attested in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
    Hypernym: עִבְרִית (ivrít)
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