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Hebraize
[ hee-brey-ahyz, -bree- ]
verb (used without object)
- to use expressions or constructions distinctive of the Hebrew language.
verb (used with object)
- to make conformable to the spirit, character, principles, or practices of the Hebrew people.
Hebraize
/ ˈhiːbreɪˌaɪz /
verb
- to become or cause to become Hebrew or Hebraic
Derived Forms
- ˌHebraiˈzation, noun
- ˈHebraˌizer, noun
Other Words From
- Hebra·i·zation noun
- Hebra·izer noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Puritans tried to Hebraize their Christian quest for personal salvation in Christ by grounding it in covenanted communities of law and collective discipline.
Eventually, David Ben-Gurion persuaded her to Hebraize her name to Meir, which means "illumination."
"It may," he said, "be all very well for born Hebraizers, like Mr. Spurgeon, to Hebraize; but for Liberal statesmen to Hebraize is surely unsafe, and to see poor old Liberal hacks Hebraizing, whose real self belongs to a kind of negative Hellenism—a state of moral inPg 167difference, without intellectual ardour—is even painful."
The Greek, on the other hand, who had not yet comprehended the majesty of his neighbor's monotheism, for lack of adequate presentation, did not Hebraize.
It was either composed by a man who tried to Hebraize the Greek, or, if a translator, by one who tried to Greecise the Hebraisms of his original—not to disguise or hide them—but only so as to prevent them from repelling or misleading the Greek reader.
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