The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
“By the affirmation of all scholars, Arabic is the most honourable language among all Semitic ones.” — Clemens Joseph David Copy Share Image
“Syriac ... was not a prominent element in the language of Palestine in pre-Christian times.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Amorite ... it is the oldest Northwest Semitic language yet discovered.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory. — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
The English name Jesus traces its origin to the Hebrew word Yeshua. Yeshua is a shortening of Yehoshuah, which means "Yahweh saves." — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
I will watch over My flock by night (Isaiah 27:3). Behold, I have appointed My ministers as your watchmen, as overseers who… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
“Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.” — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
“The Hebrew original does not say, ‘Do not kill.’ It says, ‘Do not murder.’ Both Hebrew and English have two words for… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Palestino-Tiberian tradition ... Ashkenazi opted for it, although they also introduced significant modifications.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“In addition to recording the actual changes in language ... the Masoretic pointing system also reflects the linguistic views of the Masoretes… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The revival of Hebrew, as a spoken language, is a fascinating story, which I'm afraid I cannot squeeze into a few sentences.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a Jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Most Christians believe that Jesus IS God, that Jesus is the same jealous and angry God that abhorred homosexuals and condemned them… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it… — C. F. W. Walther Copy Share Image
There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Aramaic was spoken in certain regions of upper Egypt in the fifth century B.C.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Archaic Hebrew ... earliest inscriptions dating as far back as the close of the second millennium BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The Galilean Aramaic pronunciation of שׁ was שׂ, or rather ס as the Ephraimite or Samaritan.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image