Is Modern Hebrew Totally Different from Biblical Hebrew?

In this video I compare Modern Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew to see how different (and how similar) they are. No matter what your assumptions are, there's a good chance they're wrong! Become a channel member for exclusive Langfocus videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNhX3WQEkraW3VHPyup8jkQ/join Or join my Patreon for exclusive videos plus a few other perks: https://patreon.com/langfocus Current Patreon members include these awesome people: Aleksei Bogatov Bennett Seacrist Brian King Bruce C Fiona de Visser Georgina Toland Italy Made Easy Jacob Madsen Jean P. Karl-Erik Wångstedt Kirk Kirkpatrick Marc Randazza Michael Cuomo Michael J Synnott Nobbi Lampe-Strang Rosalind Resnick Ruben Sanchez Jr ShadowCrossZero Ulf Hermjakob Vincent Wolfgang Egon Schroder Abdullah Al-Kazaz Adam Vanderpluym Al Alex Tsigdinos Alice Anthony Peter Swallow Aous Mansouri Artemio Ruz Bruce Stark Carl Luca Hofmann chris brown contumaciousCulimancer Cyrus Shahrivar Darek David Brown David Golub Diana Fulger Diane Young DIESOLpod Dina Trageser Doug El Capitan Nico G Bot grace Gregory Ferree Hdjdn Dhdjdbd HELLABBXL JAMES ORR James Wraith John Gavin John Weiss Kate Jensen Larry Salas Laterunner Leo Coyne Lissette Talledo Malandro Marcel Siemens Mark Judge Mark Kemp Matthew O'Donnell MikAE Mike Frysinger Oleksandr Ivanov Phil Franks piero Piri JAKAB VON SZENGELICE Roger Smith Scarecrow Repair Sheila Perryman Stefan Reichenberger Tara Pride Trevor Helminski Warren McKenzie Yuval Filmus Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:15 Paleo-Hebrew vs Square Script 02:00 Syntax 03:42 Patreon & Members shoutout 04:12 Other things that stand out as formal/literary 06:40 Pronunciation differences 11:24 Vocabulary 15:47 Medieval Arabic borrowings 16:13 Coinage of new words in Modern Hebrew 17:35 Differences in verbs: the vav consecutive 21:00 Differences in verbs: aspect vs tense 24:42 Closing comments