Meaning of hebrewist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A scholar who is expert in the Hebrew language.
2. A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Hebrew.

Examples

“There is nothing more wanting to his glory, than to force a French hebrewist to be silent; and I will surely be so, if, as I doubt not, he alledges to me such solid reasons as those he has made use of to destroy the English hebrewist.”

“Wilhelm Schickard (1592—1635), Professor at Tubingen, hebrewist and mathematician;”

“Dermott gave a full account of how it happened: The free masons arms in the upper part of the frontispiece of this book, was found in the collection of the famous and learned hebrewist, architect and brother, Rabbi Jacob Jehudah Leon.”

“According to Gerenius, the world renowned Hebrewist and Lexicographer, the word translated sprinkle, signifies “to spout up,” and then to sprinkle, as the result.”

“Ho was among, the best of the Hebrewists, and unequalled in his knowledge of pure theology, a skilful Biblical critic, and well versed in the sacred lore — ancient, scholastic, and modern.”

“Stiles, the ardent Hebrewist, as President of Yale, became a potent propagandist for Hebrew study and learning.”

“For an explication of the ethic of alterity as offered by the Hebrewist, philosopher, and literary theorist Emmanuel Levinas, see Shapiro, Violent Cartographies, pp. 171–209.”

“He granted her request at once, and enfranchised the bonded Hebrewists.”

“The battle between the Hebrewists and the Yiddishists goes merrily on, and ink flows as freely in the columns as blood but lately did on the battle fields of Europe.”

“In addition to these more-or-less normative Jews, there are two further categories: the “Hebrewists,” who view themselves as pre-Talmudic Jews on the grounds that their ancestors maintained Hebraic traditions, and the “Sabbatherians,” who number more than two million and who practice a kind of Judaism while including Christian elements.”

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