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The current numeral system is also known as the Hebrew alphabetic numerals to contrast with earlier systems of writing numerals used in classical antiquity. These systems were inherited from usage in the Aramaic and Phoenician scripts, attested from c. 800 BCE in the Samaria Ostraca.
Numbers Hebrew letter; 20 ('esrim) עֶשְׂרִים: כ: 21 ('esrim ve achat) עֶשְׂרִים וּאַחַת: כא: 22 ('esrim ve shtayim) עֶשְׂרִים וּשְׁתַּיִם: כב: 23 ('esrim ve shalosh) עֶשְׂרִים וּשָׁלוֹשׁ: כג: 24 ('esrim ve arba') עֶשְׂרִים וּאַרְבַּע: כד: 25
- Ancient Aramaic. Ancient Aramaic is the language of the ancient Aramaic inscriptions up to 700 B.C.E. (from Upper Mesopotamia, northern Syria, and northern Israel).
- Official Aramaic. Official Aramaic was in use from 700 to 300 B.C.E. It includes inscriptions from the Syria-Iraq area; biblical Aramaic (though opinions vary as to its origin in the different biblical passages, see below Ancient and Official Aramaic, and the Origin of the Aramaic Portions in Ezra and Daniel); the *Elephantine documents; the Driver documents; and the Hermopolis documents.
- Middle Aramaic. Middle Aramaic was used from 300 B.C.E. to the early centuries C.E. Included are documents, in somewhat corrupt Aramaic, from Persia, India, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus.
- Late Aramaic. Late Aramaic may be divided into two dialectal groups: Western Aramaic – including Galilean Aramaic, Palestinian-Christian Aramaic, and Samaritan Aramaic; and Eastern Aramaic – consisting of three dialects: Syriac, the language of the Babylonian Talmud, and Mandaic.
Home. Learn Hebrew. Hebrew Numbers in Practice: Counting, Dates, and Currency Use. Foundations of Hebrew Numbers. In Hebrew, numbers hold significance in both linguistic structures and cultural practices. Cardinal numbers are used for counting objects, people, and expressing quantities, while ordinal numbers denote position or order in a sequence.
Proto-Semitic */θ/ */ð/ are reflected in Aramaic as */t/, */d/, whereas they became sibilants in Hebrew (the number three is שלוש šālôš in Hebrew but תלת tlāṯ in Aramaic, the word gold is זהב zahav in Hebrew but דהב dehav in Aramaic). Dental/sibilant shifts are still happening in the modern dialects.
