HEB 
occur in the Stew Teftament ; as 
Rev 
xix. 5.—Hebrew fi 
-enallage of the ele, perfon, number, and gender, 
it, 26., ii. 12 3 Luke, i. 55, &c. Matt. xxiii. 37., Matt. xii. 1 
Col. ii. 19.—P. ms are faid to be borrowed from ‘the 
Hebrew, Acts, xv. ~ age ayer Jofh. i. 3.—Ellipfis 
he New Teftament, after the manner 
the Hebrew, Sine, xxiii. 34. compared with 2 Kings 
. 23. For other inftances, fee Jennings’s Jewith Antiq.. 
vol.1,. The beft treatife, fays the learned Marth, in his 
Notes to the Tranflation of Michaelis’s grespe gen on the 
Hebraifms of the New Teftament, is Johannis Vorftii de 
Hebraifmis, Novi.Teft. a ad Fifcher, Lipfiz, 
1778. See Language fs ~ 
HEBREW of the 
apottle Pa: 
iti, 
the i ete. ufing i it, Saree after having declared, 
he was“ of the Lak ait e Sead en- 
pit ny’ which, on Godwin’ s fuppofition, is the fame as an. 
Hebrew of the Hebrews ; for the Jews were not allowed’to 
marry out of their own nati ‘Befides, it is not feet that 
St. Paul would have mentioned it as a diftinguifhing privi- 
parents were not profe cyte ais is 
one of t 
who performed their public woithip in the 
w tongue ; 
_ than the tongue; for Jews. See HELLENIST 
EBREW, fomething wep to the tier of the Jews, 
é. e. the twelve tribes, defcend ing from the twelve patriarc 
fend of Jacob. 
perfo: hree ditti wl hich, Bed s a8 they 
rm three inét offices, which, in “Phas lan. 
are called by different names, : Acc ao 
dan Bible. See Braye. 
Hesrew Chara&er. There are two kinds of erogieg 
Be soa aly : the aacient, called-alfo the Square ; and the mo 
» or rabbinical c rs. The ¢ Hebrew takes ie its 
Pes EN from the figure of its hindus. ich ftand 
more fquare, and have their angles more exaét and precife 
thee the other. 
is character is ufed in ~ text of holy feripture, and 
the ‘other. lieiacipal and moft important writ hips en 
both this and cearebanica’ chara€ter are ufed in the 
fame work, the former is for the text, or ~ he fundamental 
part; and.the latter a acreiiny pert as the glofs, 
notes, pone @ 
Aaah or of this kind, 
dain of Ge a 
whofe cha. 
e, with rela to the gece cenee 
r fuch were reckoned — honourable 
HEB 
‘fas Hebrew characters, that the Gothic, or Dutch chas 
racters are, with refpeét to the Roman. 
Several authors contend, that the Square charaGter is not 
the real ancient Hebrew charaéter, written from the begin- 
ning of the language to the time of the Babylonith capti- 
vity ; but that it is the Affyrian, or Chaldee character, which. 
the Jews affumed, and accuftomed themfelves to, during the 
captivity, and yitsdaod afterw rards. _ They fay | that the yn 
durin the captivity, had 
fo that Ezra found it eel to “tee = — books tran 
{cribed into the Chaldean fquare chara hefe acthoes 
add, that mee we call the Samaritan clrehenel is the genuine 
ancient He 
Of this Spite are Scaliger, — parr = a 
fius, Grotius, Walton, Capellus, &c. and am 
cients, Jerom and-Eufebius. Jofeph Sc caliger, in sche st 
upon Eufebius’s Chronicon,’’ thinks it fo evident, that the 
cred books were ne gar written in the Samaritan erage 
ter, at leaft thofe of them that were written before 
captivity, that it is * luce clarius,’’? and with a alia 
very a thou 
critic, “a calls 
femi-theologi 
others of t é ame opinion, allege, t tha’ maritan was 
the ancient Pheenician charafer, and occa ufed by the 
Jews till the ag some ee when, learning the 
Chaldee —— from bylonians, — Laie" 
to their ow aceese of its far fuperior beauty. 
that by the saan they returned from the pases tir 7 ah 
; : 3 
brought from Affyria ; S Bat to this argan rent it 18 replied, 
that there were two forts of charaéters anciently in ule, 
viz. the facred, or prefent fquare charadter, 
ane or civil, which we call Samaritan; an 
facred i is called Affyrian, — it firft began in Afly rria to 
c commo: s farther alleged, that the 
Chaldee letters, which the mis now ufe, were unknown 
to the ancient Jews before the captivity, from Dan. i 4 
x Vil. 28. whence we 
prophet Ezekiel’s being ordered “ to fet a mark,” in igh 
— brew PM, tau, ‘upon the forehead = pe men that 
fome alfert it was iffe nt in bis + 
prefent, in which the refemblance is very fmall. _ 
hief arg nt is taken acrd ened ancient Jewifh 
the divifion . of | the 
Ifrael, or, at leait before the S Adiyran captivity | 
The thekel i : 
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