לשון המקרא

Hebrew

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /leˈʃon ha.mikʁa/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ləˈʃojn ha.mikʁɔ/

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)