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Hebrew   /hˈibru/   Listen
adjective
Hebrew  adj.  Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.


noun
Hebrew  n.  
1.
An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. "There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew."
2.
The language of the Hebrews; one of the Semitic family of languages.





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"Hebrew" Quotes from Famous Books



... Stephanus, the Parisian printer. His family name was Estienne, but, according to the fashion of the time, he used the Latin form of the word. He edited and published a version of the Sacred Scriptures, showing the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin texts, and adding certain notes which were founded upon the writings of Franois Vatable, Abbot of Bellozane, but also contained some of the scholarly reflections of the learned bookseller. On the title-page the name of the Abbot appears first, before that ...
— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield
... nearer to me in his walk, I saw that his features were strongly Hebrew, and there was an air of the proudest dignity, fearfully abased, in his mien and expression. It was more than the dignity of an individual. I could have believed that the pride of a race was humbled in ...
— Prue and I • George William Curtis
... worked and worked, and finally she fished piggy out in the bucket, but he was as dead as a doornail; and she got him out o' the way quietly, and didn't say much; and the Parson he took to a great Hebrew ...
— Masterpieces Of American Wit And Humor • Thomas L. Masson (Editor)
... the family, much as it existed among the Hebrew patriarchs, and as it exists to-day, was primeval and universal is very deeply rooted. This is not surprising. To reverse the gaze of men from themselves is no easy task. The predominance of the male over the female, of the man over the woman and of the ...
— The Position of Woman in Primitive Society - A Study of the Matriarchy • C. Gasquoine Hartley
... at this adventure." Are we become as Hebrew Elijahs, then; so that the wild ravens have to bring us food? Truth is, there was nothing miraculous, as Wilhelmina found by and by. It was a tame raven,—not the soul of old George I., which lives ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VIII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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