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Hebrew   /hˈibru/   Listen
Hebrew

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews.  Synonyms: Hebraic, Hebraical.
2.
Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews.  Synonyms: Hebraic, Hebraical.
noun
1.
The ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel.
2.
A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties.  Synonyms: Israelite, Jew.



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"Hebrew" Quotes from Famous Books



... these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. ...
— His Last Week - The Story of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus • William E. Barton
... unbounded eulogy. The more solid studies of the philosopher and the linguist were fostered with equal care. Vatable, Melchior Wolmar, and other scholars of note were invited to France, to give instruction in Greek and Hebrew. Erasmus himself might have been induced to yield to the king's importunate messages, could he have been able to divest himself of the apprehension of annoyance from the bigoted "Sorbonnists;" while even Melanchthon was, at a later period, on the point of accepting ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... music, written over its six lines with the queer F's and double F's and numerals—all Hebrew to Anthony, but bursting and blossoming with delicate melodies to Mary's eyes. Then she took up the lute, and tuned it on her knee, still sitting in a deep lounging-chair, with her buckled feet before her; while Anthony sat opposite and watched ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... in their anxiety to crush everything belonging to Christianity, often forget that, in throwing aside the Hebrew records as utterly worthless, they are getting rid of one of the most ancient literatures in the world. They also do not remember the history of a peculiar nation, strangely preserved amid the fluctuations of time, the ...
— Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer • Charles Sotheran
... ran round the circle, in which the new-comers joined. They were the soldiers who had been to hear and join the music at the Carmel-men's post. The tones of Homer's harp had tempted them to return; and they had brought with them the Hebrew minstrel, to whom they had been listening. It was the ...
— If, Yes and Perhaps - Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact • Edward Everett Hale


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