Synonyms for hebrew
ˈhi bruhe·brew

Princeton's WordNet

1. Hebrewnoun

   the ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel

2. Jew, Hebrew, Israeliteadjective

   a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties

3. Hebraic, Hebraical, Hebrewadjective

   of or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews

   "the old Hebrew prophets"

4. Hebraic, Hebraical, Hebrewadjective

   of or relating to the language of the Hebrews

   "Hebrew vowels"

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1. hebrewnoun

   Synonyms:
   israelite, jew

2. hebrewnoun

   Synonyms:
   hebrew language

3. hebrewadjective

   Synonyms:
   jewish

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1. List of paraphrases for "hebrew":

   jewish, hebraica, hebrews, heb

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1. Yair Lapid:

   I know this, because Yair Lapid said this :' The Arabic tongue and the Hebrew tongue will be equal in their rights and legal validity.' This statement is not a political statement, it's a practical statement.

2. Bruce Wells:

   My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation, ancient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, 'and the next thing that happened was...' The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as 'and it came to pass.' '' When phantom Bible passages turn dangerous People may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well. Two examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say. Those details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity. Most people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since. But the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden.

3. Yossi Ziegler:

   It is a Tanakh which was produced not for Hebrew readership, it was produced for, I assume, Christian scholars interested in the Hebrew text and wishing to have access to the best version of it.

4. Bruce Wells:

   My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation, ancient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, 'and the next thing that happened was...' The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as 'and it came to pass.' ''When phantom Bible passages turn dangerousPeople may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well.Two examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say.Those details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity.Most people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since.But the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden.

5. Ianir Milevski:

   We have no writing during that period so we know little about them, we do not know what language they spoke but we assume it was an early Semitic language, from which Babylonian and Akkadian evolved and later also Hebrew and Arabic.