Hebraic
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Etymology
Origin of Hebraic
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin Hebraicus < Greek Hebraïkós, equivalent to Hebra ( îos ) Hebrew + -ikos -ic; replacing Old English Ebrēisc
Example Sentences
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They aimed to retain the “breathing units” of biblical speech, even if that meant straining German with Hebraic syntax; the criteria, Mendes-Flohr observes, were “not aesthetic but, as it were, respiratory.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Each of the three sections is based on a Hebraic chant — two of which are traditional and one original — and adapted texts from Exodus, Genesis and Psalm 121.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
“When I began exploring the music, I was thrilled to hear the similarities among Hebraic chant and spirituals and blues.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
“When we take off the garb that had been placed upon Him and put him back in his Jewish garb that is Jewish and Hebraic context, Jewish people become open to it,” Mr. Sobel said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
They have always exerted a pacific and unifying influence upon the various and sometimes mutually conflicting Hebraic factions; at one time they have reconciled to each other different schools of Teutonic Judaism.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
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