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Hebrew vs Semitism - What's the difference?

hebrew | semitism |

As nouns the difference between hebrew and semitism

is that hebrew is a member or descendant of a semitic people claiming descent from abraham, isaac, and jacob while semitism is (lb) a word or phrase (construction or idiom) typical of or influenced by hebrew or aramaic.

As an adjective hebrew

is of or pertaining to the hebrew people or language.

As a proper noun hebrew

is the semitic language spoken by the hebrew people.

hebrew

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.
  • Synonyms

    * Hebraic

    See also

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Eber.
  • Derived terms

    * Hebrewess * Shebrew

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The Semitic language spoken by the Hebrew people.
  • The writing system used in Hebrew language.
  • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Hyponyms

    * Ivrit

    See also

    * (he) * (Hebrew language)

    References

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    semitism

    English

    Noun

  • (lb) A word or phrase (construction or idiom) typical of or influenced by Hebrew or Aramaic.
  • * 2004 , Takamitsu Muraoka, Septuagint Lexicography'', in ''Biblical Greek Language and Lexicography (edited by Bernard A. Taylor, John A. L. Lee, Peter R. Burton and Richard E. Whitaker; ISBN 0-8028-2216-9), page 85:
  • The main reason for this neglect is the fact that it is largely a translated text, a fact which is alleged to account for its strange idiom tinged with Semitic traits, largely in syntax and lexicography. For sure, one can easily identify countless Semitisms .
  • * 2009 , James R. Edwards, The Hebrew Gospel and the Development of the Synoptic Tradition (ISBN 0802862349), page 142:
  • In other words, 93% of the Semitisms' in Luke — more than nine out of 10 '''Semitisms''' in the chart — are unique to Luke. Of all Luke's ' Semitisms , only 15 (= 2%) appear in common with both Matthew and Mark;
  • * 2012 , Simon Gathercole, The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas (ISBN 1107378397):
  • Finally, we can identify certain idioms clearly of Semitic origin, but which are not found in the Bible – one might term them post-biblical Semitisms .
  • Semitic character; Semiticness.
  • * 1987 , Martin Kramer, Shi'ism, resistance and revolution , page 22:
  • In a Europe which was obsessed by race, some saw the division as one between Semites and Aryans, the Sunnis representing the Semitism of Arabian Islam, the Shi'a representing the upsurge of Aryan Iran.
  • * 1998 , Kanan Makiya, Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq (ISBN 0520921240), page 264:
  • Persian "Aryanism" and Arab "Semitism " are of course myths with a toehold on reality located somewhere in the origins of languages, not peoples.
  • * 2013 , Bernard Lewis, Islam in History , page 276:
  • the Aryanism of Iran in generous revolt against the alien and constricting Semitism of Arabian Islam.
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  • * 1990 , Richard S. Geehr, Karl Lueger: Mayor of Fin de Siècle Vienna (ISBN 0814320783), page 308
  • a racist coloration through the inclusion of another remark of Albert Gessmann: when the more radical nationalists fell silent a merger of all Aryans against the common danger of Semitism will be the next consequence.
  • * 2005 , Roderick Stackelberg, Hentschel, Willibald (1858–1947)'', in ''Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice (ISBN 1851094393)
  • Only a strong countermovement could prevent the triumph of Semitism' all over the world. The urgent task for Germans was to overcome the ' Semitism within themselves, and racial hygiene was the means to this end.
  • * 2007 , Marius Turda, ?Paul Weindling, "Blood and Homeland": Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940 (ISBN 9637326812):
  • If the victory of Semitism meant the death of the nation, the reverse was also true: the triumph of the nation implied the elimination of the Semites. Why were Jews painted in such a negative light?

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