Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biblical Hebrew, a young man.
- noun In modern use (since the fourteenth century), a student of the Talmud in a rabbinical college (yeshiba), especially now in Russia and Poland.
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Examples
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Five years old when he entered heder, at eleven he was already a _yeshibah bahur_ -- a student in the seminary.
The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915
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Five years old when he entered heder, at eleven he was already a yeshibah bahur – a student in the seminary.
The Promised Land 1912
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Five years old when he entered heder, at eleven he was already a yeshibah bahur ” a student in the seminary.
The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912
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[Footnote 1: On the _bahur_ or Talmud student see Vol. I, p. 116 et seq.] [Footnote 2: On the yeshibah in Vol.zhin, in the government of Vilna, see Vol. I, p. 380 et seq.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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