hebrew
part of speech
noun (Hebrew — the language; a Hebrew — old word for an Israelite); adjective (Hebrew)
meaning for a pupil
1) Hebrew is the ancient language of the Jewish people, in which most of the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible) was written; modern Hebrew is the main language of Israel. tree →
2) (Bible, old) A Hebrew is an Israelite, one of the people descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. tree →
3) As an adjective it describes things of that language or people, like the Hebrew alphabet. tree →
sense in the lessons
In RE pupils see that Hebrew is written from right to left and the alphabet begins aleph, bet. Jewish children learn Hebrew to read the Torah. In Bible stories, "the Hebrews" are the Israelites in Egypt. Phrases: speak Hebrew, the Hebrew Bible, Hebrew school, the Hebrew alphabet.
examples
- Hebrew is written from right to left. tree →
- Ben goes to Hebrew school on Sundays. tree →
- The Torah is written in Hebrew. tree →
- Pharaoh made the Hebrews work as slaves. tree →
- We learned that "shalom" is the Hebrew word for peace. tree →
- The Hebrew alphabet has twenty-two letters. tree →
- Queen of Beauty rose and went to her chamber, from which she fetched a knife with some Hebrew words engraven on the blade. tree →
note
Always capital H. Not every Jewish person speaks Hebrew, and Yiddish is a different language. "Hebrews" is also a book of the New Testament (a letter).
In the corpora
- Pharaoh ordered Hebrew baby boys to be killed, and Moses' mother hid him in a basket on the Nile.
- Two Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, refused Pharaoh's order to kill the baby boys.
- The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, handwritten on scrolls that are read in the synagogue with great respect.
- And she had compassion on him, and said: 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'
- And they said: 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hebrew» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.