(n.) A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) Not even the Bible account claims that the Israelites were employed as slaves to build the pyramids as they are in Hollywood.
(3) Thursday’s shooting took place during Sukkot, a weeklong festival that celebrates the autumn harvest and commemorates the wandering of the ancient Israelites through the desert following the exodus from Egypt.
(4) Indeed, many political analysts and opinion leaders worldwide describe him as the Biblical Joshua who took the mantle of leadership from Moses just as the Israelites were on the verge of entering Canaan and capably established the then fugitives in the Promised Land.” For now, the hundreds of thousands of fugitives forced from their homes and scattered around the young country have little more than hope and, if they are lucky, some food rations.
(5) The Israelites would just have said to themselves: “That Moses.
(6) It is not even an unwillingness on our part, our hearts hardened towards the unemployed like a Pharoah’s towards the Israelites.
(7) Moses shrinks from his task, as the Israelites themselves shrink from his leadership and grumble as he leads them into the desert.
(8) Joel Edgerton will play Ramses, the Egyptian pharaoh who orders that all newborn boys be thrown into the Nile through fear of the Israelites' growing population.
(9) The American civil rights movement could be seen as an attempt to re-imagine black Americans as Israelite slaves, led out of bondage to the promised land.
(10) The night ended with Tony James and Sham 69 singing The Israelites with Misty in Roots, and it was so celebratory because the gang had gone.
(11) Director: Terry Jones Entertainment grade: A History grade: C Monty Python's Life of Brian follows the story of Brian Cohen, a half-Roman, half-Israelite man, living in Judea in AD 33, on a Saturday afternoon, at around teatime.
(12) All patients were of Israelite-Sephardin origin except two (Armenian and French); they were from North-Africa (Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria) and Israël.
(13) Christians and Jews are taught that Moses parted the Red Sea and led the Israelites to the promised land.
(14) He is horrified when God tells him to return to Egypt and lead the Israelites out, and arranges for his brother Aaron to be the front man and deliver the speeches.
(15) Its obviousness was appropriately mocked by Christopher Hitchens, but my imagination hears the response of the Israelites to Moses in the voice of Basil Fawlty: "Oh I SEE.
(16) It is not the Israelites leaving Egypt – Moses and Aaron are nowhere to be seen.
(17) The dying man is Holofernes, an enemy of the Israelites in the Old Testament, and the young woman beheading him is Judith, his divinely appointed assassin.
Jacob
Definition:
(n.) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel.
Example Sentences:
(1) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
(2) The Jacob-Creutzfeldt group had a less schematic lesion pattern, without involvement of limbic areas.
(3) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
(4) He said ANC lawyers would go to court to force the Goodman gallery in Johannesburg to remove a painting of the president, Jacob Zuma, from the exhibition and from its website .
(5) Experiments were performed in two independent laboratories, each using their own meal preparations which were exactly similar in composition to the meals described by Herbert and Jacob (J.
(6) He also established himself as a regular fixture on BBC TV's Top of the Pops, having been appointed as one of the original four presenters in 1964, alongside Jacobs, Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile.
(7) To me, now, President Jacob Zuma is a boy because he is an uncircumcised Zulu."
(8) "The opposition will try to delay [elections] until unspecified political reforms are carried out," said Thailand analyst Jacob Hamstra of the Economist Intelligence Unit.
(9) This mRNA has been subsequently identified as coding for a ribosomal protein (r-protein) [Kay, M., & Jacobs-Lorena, M. (1985) Mol.
(10) It’s bigoted, racist rhetoric.” “This is an urban legend that has been going on for 14 years,” said Ryan Jacobs, a city hall spokesman.
(11) Rodney Dangerfield was born Jacob Cohen in Babylon, New York.
(12) Your regular guides throughout this tournament are sadly indisposed – Jacob Steinberg getting his giant ball signed down in SW19 and Paul Doyle who has it in his contract that he never works when Mumford & Sons are playing live.
(13) But Jacobs says he would not be surprised if some schools in Bristol have to use their own money "to ensure that the experience of a school lunchtime, the social aspect of it, is supervised adequately".
(14) Quick outs • Random subplot of the week: Peyton Manning throwing Denver’s first touchdown to Jacob Tamme, a man who rarely gets much attention in that high-powered Broncos offense, but who has been riding to every home game with the quarterback, plus receiver Eric Decker, for the last two years .
(15) When applied to a series of 14 cases in whom pancreatitis was first diagnosed at necropsy, the index devised by Jacobs et al was found to be the most useful, because in nine of these cases eight or more of the variables required were available for assessment from the case records.
(16) In this article, Chaim Jacob attempts to reconcile these apparently contradictory studies.
(17) You wish, you wish, you wish you were in Cavendish…” Jacob Bentley, news editor at the Nottingham student paper, Impact, which first published the video , says: “The bad thing is that it doesn’t shock me.
(18) New Zealand: Stephen Fleming (captain), Craig McMillan, Nathan Astle, Scott Styris, Chris Cairns, Brendon McCullum, Jacob Oram, Chris Harris, Daniel Vettori, Shane Bond, Daryl Tuffey.
(19) "Mr Jacob you have won the Nigerian lottery," says Simon McMahon.
(20) Jacobs, like both the other male undercover officers exposed by the Guardian, has been accused of having an affair while infiltrating a group.