What's the difference between hebrew and jew?

Hebrew


Definition:

  • (n.) An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.
  • (n.) The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
  • (2) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
  • (3) Instead, much of Darwish's early reading of the poetry of the world outside Palestine was through the medium of Hebrew.
  • (4) As Prof Eyal Naveh of Tel Aviv University, one of the Israeli project leaders, says: “This might be possible in a post-conflict situation, but it was not possible in an ‘in conflict’ situation.” So, the authors decided to try the next best thing: to write their own separate narratives and place them side by side, in Hebrew and in Arabic, on the opposite pages of a single book.
  • (5) This article is a presentation of the background and description of one such clinical program organized by the New England College of Optometry with the cooperation of the Department of Ophthalmology Hadassah Hebrew Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
  • (6) A systematic search was made in the Hebrew Bible for expressions of emotional distress.
  • (7) As in a mosque, worshippers remove their shoes before entering the historic building, where biblical quotations are emblazoned on the walls in English, Hebrew and Persian scripts.
  • (8) As anticipated, children in the non Hebrew reader groups performed comparably on this task, but the performance of these subjects was inferior to that of children in the Hebrew groups.
  • (9) And in response to a freedom of information request from Education Guardian, the DfE has disclosed that although it has met representatives of registered Jewish schools many times, it has no records of any such meetings with the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations – the organisation that represents the wider Orthodox community in London .
  • (10) Adopting the format of an earlier investigation, a visual recall task was employed as the dependent variable, and it was predicted that poor readers would perform as well as normals with stimuli taken from Hebrew, an unfamiliar orthography.
  • (11) Rats of the Hebrew University strain, used as donors, received single i.p.
  • (12) Experiment 2 revealed that semantic priming effects in naming were larger in Hebrew than in English and completely absent in Serbo-Croatian.
  • (13) Twenty-four Hebrew-speaking dyads (the children about 1;6) were videotaped for 30 min in an unstructured session.
  • (14) They are simply places to which kids are sent to be indoctrinated from dawn till dusk, and it is a scandal that the government has failed to deal with them for so long.” The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations did not return Education Guardian’s calls.
  • (15) In two substrains, selected from the Hebrew University strain, for their respective sensitivity (H) or immunity (N) to hypertension induced by DOCA--salt treatment, there were no significant increases in NA or DA in any part of the brain following DOCA--salt treatment.
  • (16) Rami Younis, 30, a Palestinian activist and writer with the independent Hebrew online magazine Local Call, said he usually boycotts the elections.
  • (17) The Adelsons are friends of Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Adelson purchased a Hebrew-language newspaper to support him.
  • (18) Hebrew has two forms of spelling, pointed and unpointed.
  • (19) Biblical Hebrew thus incorporated a powerful and sophisticated language of emotional expression.
  • (20) Following the discovery of the missing Israeli's bodies on Monday, new details about the teenagers' abduction and murder 19 days ago while hitching home from West Bank religious schools have emerged in the Hebrew press, including the fact that investigators believe that the teenagers were killed within a few minutes of getting into a stolen car near Gush Etzion junction.

Jew


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
  • (2) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
  • (3) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (4) Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, was falsely accused of passing secrets to Germany in 1894 in a well-known historical episode that gave rise to suspicions of antisemitism in the French military establishment of the period.
  • (5) An additional 200,000 Jews live in settlements in East Jerusalem.
  • (6) Refusing either to acquiesce in, or to rail at, Eliot's contempt for Jews, one strives to do justice to the many injustices Eliot does to Jews.
  • (7) Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), an outfit that previously operated under the banner of iEngage until controversy forced a rebrand , has decided that the worst it can say about Tell MAMA, the best means it can find of turning it into a satanic organisation, is to say that it associates with gays and Jews.
  • (8) What if the ad vilified African Americans, or Jews, or any other group for which public denigration is less permissible?
  • (9) The frequency of serum alkaline phospatase phenotypes and secretor trait is determined for Israeli Jews originating from three distinct geographical regions: Eastern and Central Europe (group I), North Africa (group II) and the Middle East (group III).
  • (10) The poll is the first major survey of the attitudes of British Jews to Israel since 2010.
  • (11) In what is widely regarded as the greatest crime in human history, around six million Jews were murdered during the second world war.
  • (12) Jews when they get successful, they will help their people, and some of the African Americans – maybe I'll get in trouble again – they don't want to help anybody," he said.
  • (13) He told the court: “We have been trying at the bar to imagine whether we can think of any other group of legal or natural persons, terrorist suspects, arms dealers, Jews, in respect of whose evidence one might even begin to think that one could tenably say, ‘Well, of course, in looking at this evidence I have been very careful because I know from the past that these people are a bit devious and a bit unworthy, and the only thing they’re really interested in is subverting public health.’ ” Yet last week’s judgment, running to 1,000 paragraphs, confirmed in excoriating detail just how determined big tobacco has been down the decades to achieve precisely this goal.
  • (14) A Liberal Democrat MP who likened the atrocities against Palestinians by "the Jews" to the Holocaust has made a public apology in the face of widespread anger.
  • (15) There should be absolutely no doubt: Hamas’s recent statements celebrating terror attacks are entirely consistent with its charter, which calls for the murder of Jews.
  • (16) In seven cases it turned out that the passports used were in the name of Jews who had moved to Israel from Britain and Germany and had no knowledge someone using their identity had visited Dubai.
  • (17) Compared with Catholics and Protestants, Jews had significantly higher rates of major depression and dysthymia, but lower rates of alcohol abuse.
  • (18) The Jedwabne massacre and Kaminski's line that "Jews should say sorry for killing Poles" during the second world war is by far the most important of the many contentious issues on this man.
  • (19) The incidence in Ashkenazi Jews originating from eastern and central Europe, was 10 and 20 folds higher than in Sephardic Jews and Arabs respectively.
  • (20) Many claims made against them echo with uncanny precision those once made against Jews and Catholics.

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