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hebrew

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hebrew.

Editorial note

Israel speaking German, unimaginable today but a Real concern for zionist theorists that complained about too few people adopting hebrew.

Examples19
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hebrew gathered in one view.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.

noun

(uncountable) The Semitic language spoken by the Hebrew people.

noun

(countable) A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hebrew.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.

noun

(uncountable) The Semitic language spoken by the Hebrew people.

noun

(countable) A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

noun

(uncountable) The writing system used in Hebrew language.

Example sentences

1

Israel speaking German, unimaginable today but a Real concern for zionist theorists that complained about too few people adopting hebrew.

2

You know, like they did with Hebrew when they re-declared Israel back in the 1940s.

3

The author clearly knows more about the Christian practice than the Hebrew (Jewish) one.

4

It was seen as such in Christian, Muslim and Hebrew culture.

5

A relative lack of dialectical variation in Hebrew might explain it.

6

The Hebrew mode of communication vs the American English one can be likened to executives at a board meeting vs engineers working on fixing a bug.

7

I'm learning French, Hebrew and Russian, and so far it has been great.

8

I'm surprised that Arabic and Hebrew aren't in the same category.

9

Not all Hebrew letters are different when they appear at the end of a word, just 4 out of 22 letters (if I remember correctly) do.

10

(The flood, the plagues in Egypt, the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt, the prophecies in Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah, etc.)[1].

11

Since it was written down at the time without having to rely on decades or even centuries of oral tradition, as was the case with the Christian and Hebrew scriptures, it's understandable that the text has remained unchanged.

12

Given that the monks who began employing majuscule and minuscule would surely have been familiar with Hebrew script, I'm hardly surprised they initially went to making the last letter significant instead of the first.

Quote examples

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While we loved "caja" (spanish for box) in Hebrew (we're based in Tel Aviv) it sounds like "cacha" which means "so-so" Hope this helps!

2

(Though, that's true for all the Afroasiatic languages including Amharic, Hebrew, and Hausa, but the FSI claims those are only "Level II" languages).

3

Besides from a couple of sounds (like the "ch" in "chuzpe" and some vocal pronounciations) I feel like I could easily learn to speak hebrew (without knowing what I'm saying of course).

4

What is very different is the manner of communication - which I think has as much to do with the fact that modern Hebrew is extremely young, and simply hadn't yet evolved the "syntactic sugar", so to speak, that makes American communication somewhat more abstract.

Proper noun examples

1

Does any of these PDF making solutions properly support RTL languages like Arabic and Hebrew?

2

An absolouteley subjective Note: When listening to todays Hebrew, I can't let go of hearing a German talking.

3

Hebrew very likely would have become de facto language without the Holocaust, but it sureley served at least as a final coffin nail.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hebrew in a sentence?

Israel speaking German, unimaginable today but a Real concern for zionist theorists that complained about too few people adopting hebrew.

What does hebrew mean?

Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.

What part of speech is hebrew?

hebrew is commonly used as adjective, noun.