noun
Other Word Forms
- Hebraistic adjective
- Hebraistically adverb
Etymology
Origin of Hebraist
First recorded in 1745–55; Hebra(ize) + -ist
Example Sentences
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If this be true, and every Hebraist can judge for himself, then the word which has been rendered created, means only to fashion, form, arrange.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
Carlyle is a Hebraist unrelieved and unretrieved by the Hellene.
From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John
Finishing his course in 1817, he became a student at the Divinity Hall, where he gained some reputation as a Hebraist.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
To the Hebraist, too, something of the same remark applies.
From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Abrahams, Israel
Luzzatto, the Hebraist of the middle of the nineteenth century, emphasized the same contrast between Hellenism and Hebraism.
From Josephus by Bentwich, Norman
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