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Hebraistic

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[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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Origin of Hebraistic

First recorded in 1840–50; Hebraist + -ic

Example Sentences

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It has become fashionable to divide the rival tendencies of modern thought into the two classes of Hellenistic and Hebraistic.

From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John

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

I could not ignore the kind but firmly severe criticism implied; I could not but revolt from this Hebraistic onslaught.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

The phraseology of the verse in Θ has a distinctly Hebraistic look, much more so than in Ο´. v.

From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by Daubney, William Heaford

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.

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