Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A manner or custom characteristic of the Hebrews.
- noun A linguistic feature typical of Hebrew occurring especially in another language.
- noun The culture, spirit, or character of the Hebrew people.
- noun Judaism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A manner or custom peculiar to the Hebrews; specifically, an idiom, expression, or manner of speaking peculiar to the Hebrew tongue.
- noun The spirit and tendency regarded as especially characteristic of the Hebrew race, historically considered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
- noun The type of character of the Hebrews.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the identification of a usage, trait, or characteristic of the
Hebrew language . By successive extension it is sometimes applied to theJewish people, their faith, national ideology, or culture. - noun rhetoric Excessive use of expressions derived from Hebrew
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hebraism and Judaism are words now in the English language and their usage is determined for us entirely by the writers who become authoritative either by their style or through the weight of their opinion, and this usage has given the term Hebraism a meaning such that it stands for the entire spirit of the Jew, not only in religion but in all that is Jewish; in English the term Hebraism covers the total biography of the Jewish soul, while the term Judaism stands only for a portion of it.
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His Hebraism is a seal which stamps all that enters his mind from Greek sources, and the Bible, spiritually interpreted, is the canon of all his wisdom.
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927
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His Hebraism is a seal which stamps all that enters his mind from Greek sources, and the Bible, spiritually interpreted, is the canon of all his wisdom.
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Bentwich, Norman 1910
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The idea of Hellenism is to see things as they are: the idea of Hebraism is conduct and obedience.
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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Alongside of Hebraism, which is Euhemeristic in principle, allegorical methods of interpretation were put forward.
Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Ingeborg Andersen 1897
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One of these systems, which played a prominent part, especially in the seventeenth century, is the so-called Hebraism, _i. e._ the attempt to derive the whole of paganism from Judaism.
Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Ingeborg Andersen 1897
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The idea of Hellenism is to see things as they are: the idea of Hebraism is conduct and obedience.
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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The phrase, "children of wrath," is a Hebraism, that is, objects of God's wrath from childhood, in our natural state, as being born in the sin which God hates.
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Hebraism, meaning often any physical cause of destruction, as a plague or storm.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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He took Carlyle for the representative of what he called "Hebraism," and he desired to balance the undue preponderance of that by insisting upon the necessity of the Hellenistic element in culture.
Among Famous Books John Kelman 1896
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