a Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic w:Semitic languages | Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc.
a (biblical) Of or pertaining to the descendants of w:Shem | Shem, the eldest of three w:Sons of Noah|sons of Noah.