Hebrew
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Hebrew /ˈhiːbruː/
▶noun
- 1 a member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel and Palestine, who established the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
■ dated or offensive a Jew.
- 2 the Semitic language of the Hebrews, in its ancient or modern form.
– origin from OFr. Ebreu, via L. from late Gk Hebraios, from Aramaic ‘iḇray, based on Heb. ‘iḇrî, understood to mean ‘one from the other side (of the river)’.
'Hebrew' also found in these Oxford entries:
Adonai
- aleph
- bath
- cheder
- dreidel
- Elohim
- gematria
- Hagiographa
- Heb.
- Hebe
- Hebraic
- Hebraism
- Hebraist
- Hebrew Bible
- hin
- Israelite
- Jehovah
- Jew
- Ladino
- Levite
- Megillah
- messiah
- Midrash
- Old Testament
- Pentateuch
- phylactery
- prophet
- Sefer
- Semitic
- Septuagint
- Sheol
- shibboleth
- Targum
- Tetragrammaton
- tsaddik
- vocalize
- vowelize
- vowel point
- Yahweh
- Yiddish
- yod
