Hebrew

Famous quotes containing the word hebrew:

    Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
    —Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 6:6.

    The words were rendered by Samuel Johnson in the opening lines of The Ant: “Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.”

    Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
    —Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.

    To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)

    Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
    —Bible: Hebrew Job (l. XXXVIII, 4)