noun
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Origin of Hebraist
First recorded in 1745–55; Hebra(ize) + -ist
Example Sentences
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She added, that he was a very learned man and a great Hebraist.
From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
He was a good Greek and Latin scholar, a profound Hebraist, and, according to the measure of his day, an accomplished mathematician.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.
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'
Luzzatto, the Hebraist of the middle of the nineteenth century, emphasized the same contrast between Hellenism and Hebraism.
From Josephus by Bentwich, Norman
A far greater Hebraist than Luther, who flourished about two hundred years before the great German Reformer came into note, put the same construction on that sacred affirmation.
From Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various
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