Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make Hebraic in form or idiom.
- intransitive verb To use or adopt Hebraisms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To adapt to the Hebrew form or manner; express in Hebrew idioms.
- To conform to the Hebrew rites, manners, or language.
- To exhibit a tendency to Hebraism; follow Hebraism as an ideal of mind and conduct. See
Hebraism , 2. - Also spelled
Hebraise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic.
- intransitive verb To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to convert something into a
Hebraic form - verb intransitive to use Hebraic
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Examples
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The medieval Jews did not simply Hebraize the names of nations but created new ones based on obscure Biblical puns.
Rembrandt—The Jewish Connection? Moser, Benjamin 2008
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The Greek, on the other hand, who had not yet comprehended the majesty of his neighbor's monotheism, for lack of adequate presentation, did not Hebraize.
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927
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The Greek, on the other hand, who had not yet comprehended the majesty of his neighbor's monotheism, for lack of adequate presentation, did not Hebraize.
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Bentwich, Norman 1910
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"It may," he said, "be all very well for born Hebraizers, like Mr. Spurgeon, to Hebraize; but for Liberal statesmen to Hebraize is surely unsafe, and to see poor old Liberal hacks Hebraizing, whose real self belongs to a kind of negative Hellenism -- a state of moral indifference, without intellectual ardour -- is even painful."
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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David Ben-Gurion (Gruen) issued a directive under which all Israeli diplomatic personnel as well as civil servants and career officers above certain ranks were obliged to Hebraize (l'avret) their last names.
Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2009
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“It may,” he said, “be all very well for born Hebraizers, like Mr. Spurgeon, to Hebraize; but for Liberal statesmen to Hebraize is surely unsafe, and to see poor old Liberal hacks Hebraizing, whose real self belongs to a kind of negative Hellenism ” a state of moral indifference, without intellectual ardour ” is even painful.”
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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