Definition of Hebriw

Definition of Hebriw

Hebrew, a Semitic language, the ancient language of the Jews, and that in which the Old Testament is written, the words of which, as indeed of others of the same stock, are derived from triliteral roots, and the verb in which has no present tense, only a past and a future, convertible, moreover, into one another.

- Wikipedia

He"brew (?), n. [F. Hébreu, L. Hebraeus, Gr. &?;, fr. Heb. 'ibhrī.] 1. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.

There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew.

Gen. xiv. 13.

2. The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages.

He"brew, a. Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

HEBREW, n. A male Jew, as distinguished from the Shebrew, an
altogether superior creation.

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

(countable)A member of a Semitic people.
(uncountable) (countable) The language of the Hebrew people, ISO code he.
Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people.
Of or pertaining to the Hebrew language.

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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