Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Hebrews or their language or culture.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; Hebrew.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews
- adj. of or relating to the language of the Hebrews
Etymologies
- Middle English Ebraik, from Late Latin Hebrāicus, from Greek Hebraikos, from Hebraios; see Hebrew. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The persons who agitated the use of the term Hebraic had certain very definite literary and historic and social relationships in mind.”
“A drunken Mel Gibson mugshot with the word "Schmuck" beneath it in Hebraic script: what more needs to be said?”
“His intimate acquaintance with Jewish customs, and his facility in Hebraic Greek, seem to show that he was an early convert to the Jewish faith; and this is curiously confirmed by Ac 21: 27-29, where we find the Jews enraged at Paul's supposed introduction of Greeks into the temple, because they had seen "Trophimus the Ephesian" with him; and as we know that Luke was with Paul on that occasion, it would seem that they had taken him for a Jew, as they made no mention of him.”
“Even Matthew Arnold admitted that its stern "Hebraic" culture, as he called it, had wrought some of the grandest achievements of history.”
“He held that the English people had been too much occupied with the 'Hebraic' ideal of the Old Testament, the interest in morality or right conduct, and though he agreed that this properly makes three quarters of life, he insisted that it should be joined with the Hellenic (Greek) ideal of a perfectly rounded nature.”
“These two spirits have been called by Matthew Arnold the "Hebraic" and the "Hellenic"; the one Hebraic, because its clearest and most consistent manifestation has been among the Hebrews; the other Hellenic, because its clearest and most consistent manifestation has been among the Hellenes, or ancient Greeks.”
“In light of the above-one a prime example of "Hebraic" violence from the Bible, the other from Christian history-why should Islam be the one religion always characterized as intrinsically violent, simply because its holy book and its history also contain violence?”
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“In short, there is unavoidable tension between Matthew, James, and presumably the "Hebraic" early Christians and the Pauline soteriology of salvation through faith.”
“Thus, within a generation of the destruction of the Temple, the non-Hebraic sects found themselves cut off from the Hebrew Torah, the basis of all the teachings of Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef.”
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