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These ISRAELITE CELTIC GENTILES made up the bulk of the early Christians, and all the promises they received as Israelites were, and are, still good today. Gods inheritance has no statue of limitations.

Is the Israel-Celt connection the reason that Irish Gaelic and Hebrew sound so similar? I was shocked the first time I heard someone speaking Gaelic on an audio tape my daughter had. I thought the language learning company had packed a Hebrew tape in the box by mistake.

I am an Irish-American who studied Biblical Hebrew for a couple of years and who made a valiant but unsuccessful effort to learn Gaelic. I assure you, the languages are unrelated except to the extent all Semitic and Indo-European languages might be related. Both families have gender, number, case, and person. Adjectives agree with their nouns, and verbs agree with their subjects in some of these categories. Semitic roots are pretty obviously composed of three consonants, with vowels inserted at various positions to make the forms derived from those roots. Turns out that the earliest version of Indo-European that can be reconstructed, once Hittite is taken into account, also has triconsonantal roots. So it's possible that Semitic and Indo-European may ultimately be related, but beyond that Hebrew and Gaelic are unrelated.

It is interesting that the Harp of the King David is the national symbol of Ireland. I think symbols like this persist long after language links have disappeared. (King David was of course an Israelite, but was not Jewish.)