Shemitic
Britishnoun
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Amongst the Hebrews, and probably all the Shemitic tribes, bohen, the thumb, and ezba, the finger, were euphemisms.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Thomas Inman
If we next turn to the Shemitic religions, we have to contend with the difficulty produced by the paucity of written records, and the doubts which exist about certain epithets that relate to the gods.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
Behind the laws regulating sacrifice in the Old Testament there lies the long history of Shemitic ritual and religion.
From Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 by J. H. (Joseph Hugh) Beibitz
In the ancient names of what are designated as the Shemitic races, children were called after the god alone, and sometimes in connection with an attribute.
From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Eliza Burt Gamble
The Bay Psalm-Book," "Welde, Eliot, and Mather mounted the restive steed Pegasus, Hebrew psalter in hand, and trotted in warm haste over the rough roads of Shemitic roots and metrical psalmody.
From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle
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