Example sentences for: hebrew

How can you use “hebrew” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Singer was, Kazin recalled, fascinated to learn that Wilson, that patrician WASP man of letters, had chosen a Hebrew inscription for his headstone.

  • The baby Moses, his existence endangered by the pharaoh's edict calling for all Hebrew sons to be slain, is set adrift in a basket on the Nile before being discovered--and adopted--by one of the pharaoh's wives.

  • Alas, I have few scholarly works to which to refer, but I looked confidently into my battered copy of Edward Robinson's A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (25th Edition, 1888).

  • In wresting the Bible from the Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, the translators set a high standard for ordinary spoken and written English.

  • Choose every 50 th letter from the first Hebrew T (called a "Taf") in Genesis, for example, and you'll find the word "Torah."


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