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Definition of Hebrew

1. Noun. The ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews. "The old Hebrew prophets"

3. Noun. A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties.

4. Adjective. Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews. "Hebrew vowels"

Definition of Hebrew

1. n. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.

2. a. Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.

Definition of Hebrew

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language. ¹

2. Noun. A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ¹

3. Noun. A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Eber. ¹

4. Proper noun. The Semitic language spoken by the Hebrew people. ¹

5. Proper noun. The writing system used in Hebrew language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hebrew

Hebraic Hebraic alphabet Hebraical Hebraically Hebraism Hebraist Hebraistic Hebraistically Hebraists Hebraize

Hebraized Hebraizes Hebraizing Hebrean Hebreish Hebrew (current term) Hebrew Aramaic Scriptures Hebrew Scripture Hebrew Scriptures Hebrew alphabet

Hebrew calendar Hebrew lesson Hebrew script Hebrewdom Hebrewess Hebrewesses Hebrews Hebrician Hebricians Hebridean

Literary usage of Hebrew

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Hebrew Literature in General. Variety of Literary Form and Contents (§ 2). ... I. The Hebrew Language : Hebrew is the usual name of the language spoken by ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Hebrew Language and Literature.—Hebrew was the language spoken by the ... The name Hebrew as applied to the language is quite recent in Biblical usage, ..."

3. American Jewish Year Book by American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America (1914)
"Arkansas: Hot Springs, Hot Springs Relief Society; Little Rock, Federation of Jewish Charities; Pine Bluff, Hebrew Relief Association. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"(See Hebrew ites. The Hebrew language is thus known ciet"on! to us fr°ma ... Besides, their object was not to exhibit Hebrew simply as it was, ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"It is not difficult to account for this, so far as Western Europe is concerned. Teachers of Hebrew were, as Bacon tells us, very easily procurable. ..."

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