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Hebraic

[ hi-brey-ik ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Hebrews, Hebrews, their language, or their culture.


Hebraic

/ hɪˈbreɪɪk /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Hebrews or their language or culture
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • Heˈbraically, adverb
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Other Words From

  • He·brai·cal·ly adverb
  • non-He·braic adjective
  • non-He·brai·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Hebraic1

1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin Hebraicus < Greek Hebraïkós, equivalent to Hebra ( îos ) Hebrew + -ikos -ic; replacing Old English Ebrēisc
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Example Sentences

Christianity and Islam also acknowledge the Hebraic separation of spirit from nature: “We are all, in all places, strangers and pilgrims, travelers and sojourners,” intoned Robert Cushman, a contemporary of the Elder William Brewster and an organizer of the Pilgrims’ voyage, in a sermon he delivered in 1622.

From Salon

These and other Jewish writers exemplify another irony: The ancient, axial, proto-cosmopolitan breakthrough drives even secular, liberal Jews who are passionate about America, not just because their own forebears escaped the European nightmare but also because the Hebraic emphasis on a communal covenant has figured so decisively in the American republic’s own history.

From Salon

Ancient Hebrews’ uprooting from Ur and their contentions elsewhere figured centrally in America’s own beginnings as a “nation of immigrants,” a land of clean breaks and fresh starts, and they figure now in our preoccupations with the Gaza war: From the biblical Abraham to Abraham Lincoln and beyond, the Hebraic origins of the American republic still matter, even as the country is becoming more gnostic, agnostic or libertarian, and less Hebraic and covenantal.

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“From Maine to Florida and back again, all America Hebraizes,” Arnold wrote, and Hebraic intrepidity and prickly fidelity indeed characterized the training of many American leaders and followers at prep schools like Groton, whose founding rector, Endicott Peabody, was a Puritan descendant.

From Salon

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.

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