When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out. — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“Archaic Hebrew ... no general agreement among scholars regarding this term.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Biblical Hebrew is not a language in the full sense of the word but merely a 'fragment of language'.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois. — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
“Aramaic did not come into Palestine until after the Babylonian-Assyrian conquest of the country.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The oldest Phoenician inscriptions date from around 1100 BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
“When Aramaeans became Christians, their name was often confounded with 'heathen', hence they called their land by the Greek name 'Syria', themselves… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Palmyrene and Nabataean dialects, which use an Aramaic script ... in the opinion of some experts might really be dialects of Arabic.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx,… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
“Nabataean (i.e., Syro-Arabian) people had a dialect differing somewhat from both Syriac and Arabic. Remains of this language are found in inscriptions… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
There's a lot of talk in some of the other versions of the Bible, the Hebrew versions, and things about the end… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and… — Eric D. Huntsman 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
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
Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in… — B. H. Roberts 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
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
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
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
“Most words in the Semitic languages can be completely defined in terms of root and pattern.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew. — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
“strange, the Hebrew noun which means “I am”, The English always use to govern damn.” — George Gordon Byron 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
“It is impossible to make a clear distinction between Babylonia and Assyria.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Syriac ... was not a prominent element in the language of Palestine in pre-Christian times.” — James John Courtenay 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