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Definition of Hebraize
1. v. t. To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic.
2. v. i. To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.
Definition of Hebraize
1. Verb. (transitive) to convert something into a Hebraic form ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) to use Hebraic idioms ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hebraize
1. to make Hebrew [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hebraize
Literary usage of Hebraize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1845)
"... Josephus take to persuade them to this, who had no confidence in his honor,
nay, who regarded him as a traitor ? What other than that he should hebraize ..."
2. From the Gospel to the Creeds: Studies in the Early History of the Christian by William Laurence Sullivan (1919)
"The Gospel Had to De-hebraize Itself. As Christianity spread beyond Jewish circles
and took in multitudes of Greeks and Romans, the belief concerning Jesus ..."
3. Matthew Arnold by George William Erskine Russell (1904)
"... like Mr. Spurgeon, to hebraize; but for Liberal statesmen to hebraize is surely
unsafe, and to see poor old Liberal hacks ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Both have prologues of which it can not be said tliat they are "Jewish-Greek" or
that they " hebraize." Yet both authors have made use of ..."
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