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What does Hebraist mean?

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Noun
  1. A scholar who specializes in the study of the Hebrew language.
  2. (obsolete) A proponent of Hebrew as the language of the Zionist movement.
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And Gill was probably the greatest Hebraist of the 18th century and staunchly defended biblical inerrancy, and only very rarely pointed out textual problems.
Onqelos and Jonathan, particularly, with their preservation of source language form, can offer the hebraist a wealth of information on BH lexical semantics.
Finishing his course in 1817, he became a student at the Divinity Hall, where he gained some reputation as a Hebraist.
The Hebraist will find the question fully discussed in Ginsburg.
This is in no way of course to suggest that Shakespeare may himself have been an Hebraist.
This chapter enables the reader to see Casaubon the scholar and Hebraist alongside Casaubon the fiercely committed Protestant polemicist.

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