How to Use Hebrew in a Sentence

Hebrew

noun

• In Hebrew tradition, Passover is from the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.
  — Holly Rizzuto Palker, Parents, 17 Sep. 2023
• At least one of them cried out for help in Hebrew before they were killed, the official added.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Daniel Deronda was quickly brought out in Hebrew, purged of most of the English chapters.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
• Origin: The name Jordan can be traced to Hebrew origins.
  — Toketemu Ohwovoriole, Parents, 25 July 2024
• The name Josias is a Latin variation that is also of Hebrew origin.
  — Shannon Day, Parents, 15 July 2024
• Plates were piled high with dates, rice, chicken and lentils, as guests chatted in a mix of Arabic, Hebrew and English.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• In a statement in Hebrew the next day, Netanyahu pointed to his track record of thwarting the two-state solution.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• Acquiring Hebrew, the language of his new home, was a slow and painstaking process for Appelfeld.
  — Elena Lappin, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• Far from obviously being good, the God of the Hebrew Bible comes up short, morally.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Stones emerged depicting stars, the moon, and letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
  — Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• Zev is a name of Hebrew origin which means Wolf — also my great grandfather's name.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 23 July 2023
• The Ziz is named for a giant water bird from Hebrew mythology that rules over and protects smaller birds.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
• The prime minister offered his reply in Hebrew, which has since been translated by the Times of Israel.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 9 Dec. 2023
• Though Hebrew is the language of Jewish prayer, Rabbi Harlow aspired to make the prayer book accessible to those who did not speak the language.
  — Ari L. Goldman, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• My wife teaches Hebrew and Spanish at one of the most prominent Boca yeshivas, and my daughter goes to Hillel.
  — Joseph "joe" Kaufman, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2024
• Two families, one Hebrew and one Roman, are each fraught with their own crises of faith, and are drawn together in a complex web of espionage.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 27 June 2024
• Some soldiers spoke to the children in Hebrew, possibly searching for Israeli hostages.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
• Advertisement The men darted in and out of doorways, weapons raised, commands shouted in Hebrew and English.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• And yet young men of the Haredim, as they are known in Hebrew, are in all practical terms exempt from mandatory military service.
  — Mick Krever, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• Shouting into megaphones in Hebrew, soldiers call out to the crowd, asking whether there are any Israeli hostages among them and telling them to wave their arms and shout if they are being smuggled into the south.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2023
• The multilingual series will be filmed in Hebrew, German and English.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 July 2024
• The Zionists also had a principle of hiring Hebrew labor, at the exclusion of Arab labor.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• On the wall across from it, empty shell casings are retrofitted into Jewish mezuzah doorposts, which hold a piece of parchment inscribed with Hebrew verses from the Torah.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024
• The 46-year-old rapper, who now goes by Ye, took to social media early Tuesday morning (Dec. 26) to share his regrets over comments in a statement written in Hebrew.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2023
• The longest-serving Israeli prime minister has repeated this refrain for more than a decade, in English and Hebrew.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2023
• After all, the Gospel is nothing if not a narrative, and the Hebrew Pentateuch is one good story after another.
  — The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Two weeks later, West issued a public apology in Hebrew.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
• There is almost zero media coverage in Hebrew in Israel about this.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• Terrified but safe, nearly 12 hours after the attack began, they were rescued by an Israeli soldier speaking Hebrew who had been sent by a friend.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
• While the recordings, which contain thousands of hours of interviews all in Hebrew, were made over eight years ago they have never been seen anywhere including Israel due to the country’s privacy law.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024