Hebrew
Example Sentences
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As a child in New Orleans, Nicholas Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or heard Hebrew.
As a child in New Orleans, Nicholas Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or heard Hebrew.
As a child in New Orleans, Mr. Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or bris; he heard neither Yiddish nor Hebrew.
In Hebrew, Mr. Friedman notes, her parents were named Mordechai and Esther, the two main characters in the story of Purim, which is about a Jewish queen who saves her people.
Many who don’t have a special reinforced room in their home, called in Hebrew a mamad, choose to camp in communal bunkers instead of scrambling to safety every time an alert goes off.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
