Hebrew and Aramaic are two related Semitic languages that share the same 22-letter alphabet and many words. In Jesus’s time Aramaic was the everyday language of Judea and Galilee, the language he spoke and taught in, while Hebrew was the language of Scripture and worship. Most of the Old Testament is Hebrew, and a few chapters are Aramaic. They are not the same language, and neither grew out of the other. Both belong to the northwestern branch of the Semitic…

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