Bird names in Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Hebrew

The lexicographic description of the birds’ names in the Hebrew language is a relevant topic for Hebraic studies. Many of these terms occur once or more in the Bible, and thus do not have a clear zoological identification. When forming the lexical composition of modern Hebrew, these terms were given specific scientific meanings based on a variety of arguments, including the nature of their use in various post - Biblical text corpora. In this article, we look at the names of birds, in Biblical, medieval and modern Hebrew. The purpose of this article is to explore the names of birds that are mentioned in the Bible, and their semantic and functional evolution in Rabbinic, medieval, and modern language. To achieve this goal, a number of tasks were solved: the isolation of the studied lexemes from the general set of faunal terminology. For this study, we have taken the terms for the bird that are mentioned in the Bible. A study of them uses in Hebrew text corpora in Rabbinic, medieval, and modern literatures. Consideration of relevant terms using a method that includes contextual, semantic, and linguistic aspects. The study of the names of birds in different epochs of the development of the Hebrew language gives an idea of the problems and methods of semantic description of the vocabulary of the ancient written language and its development in its modern written and spoken forms. The results of the study claim that the names of birds in the Hebrew language is dynamic, since most bird names in the Biblical language do not have an exact meaning due to a disagreement between ancient and medieval commentaries or a matching passage between the Hebrew and ancient Greek Bibles. As a result, many of them remain in question until now. In modern Hebrew, many of the biblical names of birds have changed their meanings over time and today they differ from the original language.

bird names, Bible, Old Testament, New Testament, Hebrew, Talmud and Midrash, medieval Jewish literature, modern literature, modern Hebrew

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