How to Use Hebrew in a Sentence

Hebrew

noun

• They’ve never been exposed to them, not as adults and not back in Hebrew school.
  — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
• There is only a small number of people in the room who know anything about Hebrew prayer.
  — David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
• On his first day at the school, his parents also registered him for Hebrew school.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2024
• Zev is a name of Hebrew origin which means Wolf — also my great grandfather's name.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 23 July 2023
• The dates of Hanukkah change each year according to the Hebrew calendar.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2024
• Stones emerged depicting stars, the moon, and letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
  — Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• The name Josias is a Latin variation that is also of Hebrew origin.
  — Shannon Day, Parents, 15 July 2024
• The lights go down, the candles light up, and Jonah chants the portion in its original text in Hebrew.
  — Leah Abrams, Them., 17 Apr. 2025
• Acquiring Hebrew, the language of his new home, was a slow and painstaking process for Appelfeld.
  — Elena Lappin, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• Daniel Deronda was quickly brought out in Hebrew, purged of most of the English chapters.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
• The voices of others in the convoy can also be heard, as well as those of people shouting commands in Hebrew.
  — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
• Without a registry, there was no way to look for graves — and without knowing the Hebrew alphabet, there was no way to read them.
  — Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
• Right-to-left scripts such as Hebrew or Arabic can complicate the translation process.
  — Ihor Hamal, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• One of the Palestinian women told me that she was asked to sign papers in Hebrew that were not translated.
  — Lynzy Billing, The Dial, 6 May 2025
• 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 Oscar-winning filmmaker didn’t speak Hebrew, but sensed this was something big.
  — Jocelyn Noveck, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 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
• 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
• Far from obviously being good, the God of the Hebrew Bible comes up short, morally.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• 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
• One of the rocks bears an inscription from Lamentations, in Hebrew and English.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
• Passover is a Jewish holiday during the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar.
  — Greta Cross, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
• In the video, Avital, in Hebrew, informs her husband of their new daughter's name, according to Reuters.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Shooting is set for Spring 2025 and will be filmed in Hebrew, Arabic and English.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Nov. 2024
• 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
• So many of the sources are in Yiddish and Hebrew, and Eastern European Jewish civilization was wiped out.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
• Weiss is founding rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in the Bronx and a longtime activist for Jewish causes and human rights.
  — Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
• The 24 books comprising the entire Hebrew Bible cover a wide range of topics in history, law, poetry, wisdom, and theology.
  — Jonathan I. Shenkman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• Segal included an analysis by a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that tracked the price of goods in Gaza and compared them with similar costs in historic food shortages.
  — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025