Shemitic
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In the following pages, the words which I select are drawn from the Latin, Greek, Sanscrit, Shemitic, or Egyptian.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Inman, Thomas
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 Earle, Alice Morse
The Hebrew belongs to a stock of related languages commonly called Shemitic, because spoken mainly by the descendants of Shem.
From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)
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 Inman, Thomas
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 Beibitz, J. H. (Joseph Hugh)
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