Hebrew

[ US /ˈhibɹu/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews
    the old Hebrew prophets
  2. of or relating to the language of the Hebrews
    Hebrew vowels
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
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How To Use Hebrew In A Sentence

  • The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C.
  • In 1936 a Polish Anthropologist named Sula Benet discovered that in the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament the word "kaneh bosm" had been translated as calamus by the Greeks when they first rendered the Books in the 3rd century B.C., and then propagated as such in all future translations from the Greek as Hebrew ceased to be a spoken language, not again revived until the 1800's. Phelps and Obama-- leading the way Towards legalizing Marijuana.
  • He reports that many Israelis, using the word Shoah, which is Hebrew for Holocaust, joke that "There's no business like Shoah business. Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free
  • So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study.
  • Gesenius considers this equivalent with "cohabit;" and from this single passage draws the sense which he assigns to [Hebrew: 'iyzebel] This seems rather far-fetched. Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
  • In contrast, George finds great kinship in the pristine and untainted teachings of the Hebrew codifier, Moses.
  • Actual Hebrew letters in original. mem and tet are transposed, kaph and vav look just like resh. * = final forms.p. 52, note "54". Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
  • His maternal grandfather, who fled Russia to avoid conscription by the tsarist army, was a Hebrew scholar, mystic, mathematician, and inventor who made boots and shoes for a living.
  • Other chants, like Agnus dei: Qui pius ac mitis, were expanded, or “troped” with additional text and music, and it was perhaps as an educational gesture that Greek, Hebrew, and Galician words were added to the ancient double-versicle “prosa” Alleluia: Gratulemur et letemur. Archive 2009-04-01
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