Why are Greek and Hebrew alphabets similar?

As Vladimir F says, both the Greek and the Hebrew writing systems are descended from the Phoenician abjad (a sort of consonant-only alphabet). That’s why the letter names are similar.

Is Greek alphabet based on Hebrew?

The Greek alphabet originates from the Phoenician alphabet and today has 24 letters and is written from left to right. It is the predecessor for not only the Greek alphabet, but also the Aramaic Hebrew and Arabic alphabets. It is therefore the origin of almost all modern alphabet based scripts.

How similar is Greek and Hebrew?

Greek is European whilst Hebrew is Semitic, from the same family as Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopian etc. They share a few similarities because they were quite big languages around the same time period (ie about 2000-3000 years ago, and so they influenced each other a little).

Is Greek alphabet older than Hebrew?

The Greek language is the oldest language in Europe, spoken since 1450 years before Christ. The Hebrew language is about 3000 years old. It is currently the official language of Israel, after its extinction, the Israeli people revived it.

Which came first the Hebrew or Greek Bible?

Wikipedia suggests that Old Hebrew was first written around the 10th century BCE, and the Greek one around the 8th century BCE, 200 years later, but it’s starting to get into a matter of terminology.

What is Hebrew related to?

Hebrew language, Semitic language of the Northern Central (also called Northwestern) group; it is closely related to Phoenician and Moabite, with which it is often placed by scholars in a Canaanite subgroup.

What is the Greek version of the Bible called?

By The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica | View Edit History. Septuagint, abbreviation LXX, the earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew. The Septuagint was presumably made for the Jewish community in Egypt when Greek was the common language throughout the region.