The Hebrew language is spoken by more than six million people, mainly in the State of Israel. It was also discussed by the Jewish communities around the world and expatriate Israeli communities in various levels of knowledge in the form of the liturgy and in its form of conversation.

In the State of Israel, is one of two official languages and is spoken by the majority of the population.

In addition, the language has proved of great interest to archaeologistsand students of theology concerned with the history of ancient Israel. Hebrew is an evolutionary process that has, like other languages, the continuity between them is certainly subject to very high.

Most of the Hebrew Bible is written in classical Hebrew. This phase is believed to have spoken the language of ancient Israel flourishing between the 10th Century BC to 4th Century AD.

Late Biblical Hebrew at 6 to 4 century BC. This period correspondsthe period of Persian hegemony over the conquered kingdom of Israel and Judah. The biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah were written during this period. Hebrew during this period is very similar to the classical biblical Hebrew, although some foreign words will, in particular the conditions of government will not be displayed.

Perhaps the most famous of ancient times is found in the Dead Sea, which from the 3rd century BC to 1st century AD. This is equivalent to or the Hellenistic and Roman periodIf the destruction of the Second Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, although some overlap is endemic in Africa, probably in Hebrew found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The destruction of the second Jewish temple, not the end of development in emerging rabbinic circles. Mixed niches is the Hebrew of the Mishna and Tosefta, the main work of the oral law in Judaism.

Beginning of the first Byzantine period, it seems that the classical Hebrew to clubs every day are no longer spoken.This decrease was partially supported by the catastrophic Bar Cokhba was triggered the revolt against Rome in 135 AD because of the drastic decline of the Jewish population in the area, especially in Judea.

The golden age of Jewish culture in medieval Spanish and Portuguese on the ground since Israel suffered a sort of rebirth. Produced by the revival of grammar, philosophy and literature under Arab rule, examined the grammar and vocabulary Hebrew grammarianBiblical Hebrew.

The literary use of the Hebrew language was during the Jewish Enlightenment in the mid-19th century, once again, with the release of several Jewish newspapers.

The revival of Hebrew as the language of everyday life was through the efforts of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, joined the growing Jewish national movement, and in 1881 emigrated to Palestine, then start days. Ben-Yehuda set out the means to develop the literary and liturgical languagespoken in everyday Hebrew.