Koine Greek and Biblical Hebrew

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Does Biblical Hebrew apply to the New Testament or is it just for the Old Testament?

And is Koine Greek for both the New Testament and Old Testament?
 
Hebrew was used in the Old Testament, except for part of Protestant-Bible Daniel and (I think) part of Protestant-Bible Esther, which were in Aramaic.

Koine Greek was used in the New Testament and the Septuagint, which was the Greek translation of the Old Testament. I don’t know if there were differences between the two; there is a current thread on that subject, but I have not read it.
 
Slight correction to my post – the parts of the Old Testament that are in the Catholic Bible, but are excluded from the Protestant Bible, are in Greek, not in Hebrew.
 
TreeOfLife123 said:
Well I think I will study both eventually.
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There are many Hebrew/Aramaic words found translated on a “sound” basis in the NT; so even though the NT is Greek, I think it very useful to know basic Hebrew.

For example, “Beth” means “house” and “lehem” means bread.
So, Jesus was born into the “house of Bread.”
etc.

Also, caution, might be given some mis-information concerning the Greek of the NT. Vs. the Old (LXX), and the inability to read the OT. That’s simply not true. They are both in Koine Greek, and equally readable. The Septuagint predates the time of Jesus, and we have copies from the 400’s.

The Hebrew, however, is not that old. Most of what we have today is past the 1000’s mark. They are both useful for cross-checking each other. Also, note, the Christians have always used the Greek OT from the time of Christ forward. The re-study of the Hebrew appears to have begun in the 400’s with St. Jerome after Hebrew had basically died as a mainstream Christian language.
 
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