עִבְרִי, עִבְרִיָּה, עִבְרִית f. (b. h.) Hebrew; (לשין) ע׳ Hebrew language; (כתב) ע׳ Hebrew character, type. Kidd. I, 2 עבד ע׳ a Hebrew slave; אמה הע׳ a Hebrew handmaid. Gen. R. s. 42 ומשיח בלשון ע׳, v. עֵבֶר II. Gitt. IX, 6 עד אחד עברי וכ׳ if one witness signed in Hebrew type, and the other in Greek, and again one in Hebrew &c. Ib. 8 גט שכתבו עברית וכ׳ if a letter of divorce was written in Hebrew, and its witnesses signed in Greek. Y. Meg. I, 71ᵇ bot.; Esth. R. to I, 22, a. e. ע׳ לדיבור the Hebrew language is adapted for oratory; a. fr.—Meg. 18ᵃ קראה … עברית if he read the Megillah in a trans-Euphratean (Aramaic) translation.—Pl. עִבְרִים, עִבְרִיִּים; f. עִבְרִיּוֹת. Ib. עברית לע׳ an Aramaic translation read before Aramæan Jews. Ex. R. s. 3 למה קורא אותם ע׳ על שם שעברו ים why does he call them ‘Ibriim (Ex. III, 18)? Because they passed the sea (on going to Egypt). Ex. R. s. 1. Pesik. R. s. 23; a. fr.
עִבְרִי
Gloss
עִבְרִי , עִבְרִיָּה , עִבְרִית f. (b. h.) Hebrew ; ( לשין ) ע׳ Hebrew language ; ( כתב ) ע׳ Hebrew character, type . Kidd. I, 2 עבד ע׳ a Hebrew…
References
- Jastrow, ע׳ 1
- Jastrow, כְּתַב I 1
- Mishnah Kiddushin 1:2
- Bereishit Rabbah 42:8
- Jastrow, עֵבֶר II 1
- Mishnah Gittin 9:6
- Mishnah Gittin 9:8
- Jerusalem Talmud Megillah 1:9:3
- Esther Rabbah 4:12
- Megillah 18a:20
- Jastrow, עִבְרִי 1
- Jastrow, עִדְרִיּוֹת 1
- Shemot Rabbah 3:17
- Exodus 3:18
- Shemot Rabbah 1:36
- Pesikta Rabbati 23:1