Hebraistn.
/ˈhiːbreɪɪst/, U.S. /ˈhiˌbreɪᵻst/ 1. One versed in the Hebrew language; a Hebrew scholar.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Hebrew > one versed in Hebrew
Hebrician1571
Hebraician1610
Hebraean1650
Ebritian1691
Hebraist1755
Hebrewist1898
1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 55 A very learned man and a great Hebraist.
1883 A. Roberts O.T. Revision viii. 173 The celebrated Hebraist, Gesenius.
2. One who has the qualities of the Hebrew people; an adherent of the Hebrew system of thought or religion.
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society > faith > sect > Judaism > [noun] > person
Jewa1225
synagogistc1662
sabbatizer1683
smouse1705
smouch1765
sheeny1824
Yahudi1858
Hebraist1879
Hymie1956
SJM1975
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. i. ii. 26 St. Paul was a ‘Hebraist’ in the fullest sense of the word.
1887 A. C. Swinburne in 19th Cent. Mar. 423 This splendid poetic style..what modern criticism would define as that of a natural Hebraist.
3. A Jew of Palestine, who used the Hebrew Scriptures, as opposed to a Hellenistic or Grecian Jew.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > of specific area
the Dispersion1382
Oriental Jew1659
diaspora1694
Polack1834
Ashkenazim1839
Hebraist1892
Litvak1892
Peruvian Jew1897
Tudesco1897
halutzim1921
Yemenite1926
Ostjuden1934
Sabra1945
Yekke1950
refusenik1973
1892 G. F. X. Griffith tr. C. Fouard St. Peter 62 [The Hellenists] were better prepared than were the Hebraists for the teachings of Jesus.
4. One who maintains that the New Testament was written in Greek that contained Hebrew idioms.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > [noun] > student of language of
purist1835
Hebraist1859
1859 E. Masson tr. G. B. Winer Gram. New Testament Diction i. i. 25 Various..scholars (the Purists) perseveringly endeavoured to demonstrate that the style of the N.T. entirely reaches the standard of classical Greek purity..while others (the Hebraists) maintained..that it exhibits a..predominant Hebrew tincture.
1906 J. H. Moulton Gram. N.T. Greek (1908) 3 The Hebraist went absurdly far in recognising Semitic influence where none was really operative.
1907 Expositor Nov. 428 In the controversy of the Purists and Hebraists in the seventeenth century.
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