Hebraistic

American  

[hee-brey-is-tik, -bree-] / ˌhi breɪˈɪs tɪk, -bri- /

Sometimes Hebraistical

adjective

1. of or relating to Hebraists or characterized by Hebraism or Hebraisms.

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Other Word Forms

• Hebraistically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of Hebraistic

First recorded in 1840–50; Hebraist + -ic

Example Sentences

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Hebraistic

This architecture is Hebraistic in spirit, not Greek; it well accords with the deep ground-swell of Hebrew prophets.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

This architecture is Hebraistic in spirit, not Greek; it well accords with the deep ground-swell of the Hebrew prophets.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

The language in which the book is written is the most Hebraistic Greek of the New Testament, as its contents are the most deeply tinged with Judaism.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard

Despite the grammatical involution of the style here carried to an extreme, and underneath the apparatus of Greek pronouns and participles, there is a fine Hebraistic lilt pervading the doxology.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

Philo subtle, and with long involved periods knit together by logical connectives: the Book of Wisdom sententious, full of parallelisms, assertory and Hebraistic throughout.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor