The Hebrew language pretty much went extinct after 400 BC or so, didn’t it?
I did a little research. Hebrew language began about 1000 BC and is still spoken so it has been around for about 3000 years. I learned something.
I wouldn’t say extinct because it would have been used in Jewish circles and for sure in the temple etc. However it certainly wasn’t the language of the general public and certainly not in the Gentile world which was the focus of the New Testament. The Holy Spirit certainly knew that the language that would reach the most people for the longest period of time would be the Greek. Today we have the sacred name and Hebrew roots cults trying to rebuild the sect of Pharisees though they would deny that. Their position illustrates a total lack of faith that God could preserve His word as He intended and promised.
No, that isn't true - the overwhelmingly Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls, and more particularly the Bar Kochba Letters (c. 135AD) show Hebrew to be a vibrant and living language well beyond the Biblical time. In fact, some modern scholars defend Hebrew as a living language all the way into the Crusades and Medieval times, though most are satisfied with some endurance beyond 135AD... Perhaps c. 200/250AD...
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Hebrew had ceased to be an everyday spoken language somewhere between the first and fourth centuries CE[10] and survived into the medieval period only as the language of Jewish liturgy and rabbinic literature. Then, in the 19th century, it was revived as a spoken and literary language, and, according to Ethnologue, is now the language of 9 million people worldwide,[11][12] of whom 7 million are from Israel.[3][13] The United States has the second largest Hebrew speaking population, with about 221,593 fluent speakers,[14] mostly from Israel.