(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.
Ruth
Definition:
(v.) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.
(v.) That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Scottish Tory leader, Ruth Davidson, has abandoned plans to call for lower Scottish tax rates after learning that George Osborne is considering far deeper spending cuts.
(2) A significant breakthrough has been achieved by Ruth Nussensweig and her colleagues using the techniques of molecular biology.
(3) US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted that her traditional State of the Union nap may have been induced by a glass or two of wine.
(4) The transition from the Chipper Jones era to the Upton era is going less than smoothly – Justin, who still has a ways to go to reach his full capabilities, looks like Babe Ruth compared to BJ, who is hitting .179.
(5) Ruth Rankine, deputy chief inspector of general practice at the Care Quality Commission, said: “If we find on our inspections that staffing levels are leading to patients receiving unsafe care and treatment, including delays in response times, then we have a range of enforcement powers we can use to ensure that appropriate action is taken.
(6) 6.49pm: Ruth Francis, head of press at Nature Publishing Group, also gives the thumbs-up to Scientific American's reporting of the findings .
(7) Labour suffered disastrous losses in Scotland, where it slipped to third place behind Ruth Davidson’s Scottish Conservatives.
(8) It currently has one woman sitting on it – Sotomayor joins Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
(9) Given that the next president could be in a position to replace Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer – two of the members of the razor-thin five-vote majority supporting Roe v Wade – Americans who don’t want to return women to the reproductive dark ages should vote accordingly come November.
(10) Chosen by impressive writers and critics – including Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Larkin, George Steiner, Saul Bellow, AS Byatt, Ruth Rendell, John Carey – these shortlists demanded, at least, some respect.
(11) Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, disclosed that she stayed at the far more budget-minded Travelodge for her party's annual conference in Manchester.
(12) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan's crumbly little almond and lemon tarts are the perfect example of its charms, to my mind – not too sweet, not too sour, just intensely, deliciously zesty.
(13) John Savage 'We were all cycling, listening to the Smiths' Ruth Martin outside the Salford Lads Club, Salford.
(14) It is now the official opposition, boosted by the star quality of the Tory leader Ruth Davidson and Scotland has given the once loathed party of Margaret Thatcher its biggest fillip since the 1950s.
(15) She is, therefore, basically the Ruth Evershed (from Spooks) of the ancient world.
(16) Chief policy adviser to Greenpeace, Ruth Davis, said: "What this report reminds us is that sudden shifts in global climate will affect our world and our daily lives in chaotic and unusual ways.
(17) Ruth Carnall, former chief executive of NHS London.
(18) The Scottish Conservatives leader, Ruth Davidson, has raised eyebrows by posting a picture of the actor Gillian Anderson in lingerie on social media.
(19) 8.24pm BST "The mood is downright miserable" – defense department education activity employee The Guardian's Ruth Spencer ( @ruths ) is in touch with federal workers affected by the shutdown.
(20) Fifteen years ago she was an emerging talent, as were Harriet Hunt and Ruth Sheldon, who both won world girls championships against strong opposition.