Hebrew

Hebrew, a Semitic language, the ancient language of the Jews, and that in which the Old Testament is written, the words of which, as indeed of others of the same stock, are derived from triliteral roots, and the verb in which has no present tense, only a past and a future, convertible, moreover, into one another.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)