noun
Other Word Forms
- Hebraistic adjective
- Hebraistically adverb
Etymology
Origin of Hebraist
First recorded in 1745–55; Hebra(ize) + -ist
Example Sentences
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Only one of them seems to have been an accomplished Hebraist, but both were good Latin and Greek scholars; and both were familiar with Italian, Spanish, French, and German.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.
She added, that he was a very learned man and a great Hebraist.
From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
It may be a mere coincidence, but certainly the most learned Hebraist it was ever my lot to know was also the best and most satisfactory carver of a leg of mutton.
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
Carlyle is a Hebraist unrelieved and unretrieved by the Hellene.
From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John
He was a good Greek and Latin scholar, a profound Hebraist, and, according to the measure of his day, an accomplished mathematician.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.
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