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noun
Hebraism  n.  
1.
A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
2.
The type of character of the Hebrews. "The governing idea of Hebraism is strictness of conscience."





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"Hebraism" Quotes from Famous Books



... example. The Hebraism [Greek: meta salpingos phones megales] (St. Matt. xxiv. 31) presents an uncongenial ambiguity to Western readers, as our own incorrect A. V. sufficiently shews. Two methods of escape from the difficulty suggested ...
— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon
... be regarded as the complement and contrast of Hebraism. Hebraism revealed the transcendence of Jehovah. Hellenism declared the divinity of man. The Greek, pre-eminent, in philosophy as a pagan, became, as a Christian, pre-eminent in theology. He blended the complemental conceptions of ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various


Words linked to "Hebraism" :   faith, Jewry, Orthodox Judaism, Reform Judaism, Jewish Orthodoxy


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