Ideological Secularization of Hebrew Terms in Socialist Zionist Israeli

One of the problems facing those attempting to revive Hebrew as the national language of the emerging state of Israel was that of Hebrew lexical voids. The ‘revivalists’ attempted to use mainly internal sources of lexical enrichment but were faced with a paucity of roots. They changed the meanings of obsolete Hebrew terms to fit the modern world. This infusion often entailed the secularization of religious terms.

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